"dungarees"

[Laurence Horn]

At 12:05 AM -0500 2/3/09, Alice Faber wrote:
>Mark Mandel wrote:
>>Good heavens! AFAIR I've always known the word "dungarees", possibly before
>>I knew them as jeans. (Grew up in the 50s in the NYC suburbs.)
>>
>
>Likewise. Even though my parents probably would have called them "blue
>jeans" at the time (not just "jeans"), I do remember thinking of
>"dungarees" as a more old-fashioned term than "jeans".
>
Ditto.  I'd forgotten that the default term for us too was indeed
"blue jeans", with compound stress as in "blueberries" or
"bluestockings".

LH

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