"dungarees"

[Wilson Gray]

WRT Larry's comment WRT the stress pattern, I agree.

-Wilson
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On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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> 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".
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> LH
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