Sweaters

Grant Barrett gbarrett at AMERICANDIALECT.ORG
Fri Oct 29 23:38:22 UTC 1999


On Friday, October 29, 1999, Aaron E. Drews
<aaron at LING.ED.AC.UK> 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?

Those are sweaters, as others have said.

In French, I believe, they would be les pullovers, which I was
told derives from the British English.

How about that hat! What would we call that? It's not quite a
sock hat. Knitted cap? Something more specific?



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