"dungarees"

[Sam Clements]

Sorry if I'm coming in late, and have ignored or missed others posts.

Assuming Dan's email is the original post, the term "dungaree" to mean, in
the US,  a jean material pair of pants can be found using newspaperarchive,
which mainly searches US newspaper articles, and has 27 "hits" for the term,
advertising and explaining what it was from the early 1890s.

If I've misposted, please advise.

Sam Clements
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Goodman" <dsgood at IPHOUSE.COM>
To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 13:53
Subject: "dungarees"


> With permission, from the blog of an Australian-born fiction writer:
>
> Dungarees
>
> I have an older character, who lives in upstate NY and has pretty much
> her whole life, who refers to jeans as “dungarees”. I had her use that
> word after consulting with friends from upstate who remembered people of
> their grandparents’ generation and older using that word. I have been
> challenged on this by someone who thought the word was Australian.
> Absolutely not.1
>
> I’m looking for more evidence than just my upstate New Yorker friends’
> say so. Thus far I’ve found this in wikipedia which lists the word as
> archaic for the New York City area. But am coming up blank on other
> supporting evidence.
>
> Can any of you help me?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
>    1. I suspect I’m going to cop that a lot with the Liar book—people
> assuming I’ve gotten things wrong—like having New Yorkers saying they’re
> waiting “on line”—when, in fact, I’ve gotten it right, but they just
> don’t happen to know some of the local New Yorker dialect. Many USians
> assume that all USians talk the same. So not true! [
> http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2009/02/02/dungarees/#comments
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