Dungarees

[Mark Mandel]

Not everybody. ISTM that most of the replies, like mine, have come
from people familiar with the term in one way or another, and that as
a group we're more willing to provide positive data points than
negative ones.

Mark Mandel

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Baker, John <JMB at stradley.com> wrote:
>
>        I've been surprised at how familiar the term seems to everybody.
> To me, "dungarees" is a purely literary term.  In fact, I was hazy on
> its exact meaning until this online discussion.  When I was growing up
> in Kentucky in the 1960s and 1970s, we called them jeans or blue jeans
> or, more generically, pants.

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