Beg pardon?

[Wilson Gray]

"Busted in the US? 'Drop trou (or _panties_), bro (or sis)!' • The Register"
www.theregister.co._uk_

"Panties"? I thought that the word was "knickers" in Britspeak.

But, IMO, even if "panties" *is* pushing out "knickers," it won't make
up for the replacement of "vacation" by "holiday"in the UK sense.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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