Sweaters

[Kathleen Miller]

I would definately not call it a sweatshirt - nor would I call it a jumper.
A jumper to me is a dress that looks like overalls. I'd call it a sweater -
plain and simple.

Katy


At 09:29 PM 10/29/99 +0100, you wrote:
>Hello All,
>
>I've enclosed a picture of an item of clothing.  What I'm wondering is:
>would anybody call this item of clothing a sweatshirt?  If you don't call it
>a sweatshirt, do you think younger people do, or your colleagues and peers?
>
>The reason I ask is because I'm noticing quite a few people calling this a
>sweatshirt in my data, where I would expect either sweater or jumper.  What
>I want to know is if "sweatshirt" is a legitimate variant in any variety of
>American English, or if my subjects are finding a way of avoiding having to
>say either sweater or jumper, or if my subjects just plain can't tell the
>difference from this picture.
>
>Thanks for any help!
>
>Aaron
>
>
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>Aaron E. Drews                               The University of Edinburgh
>http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~aaron      Departments of English Language and
>aaron at ling.ed.ac.uk                    Theoretical & Applied Linguistics
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