Beg pardon?

[Laurence Horn]

On Apr 5, 2012, at 4:00 AM, Wilson Gray wrote:

> "Busted in the US? 'Drop trou (or _panties_), bro (or sis)!' • The Register"
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> "Panties"? I thought that the word was "knickers" in Britspeak.

Rest assured; umliterary research indicates that "knickers" appears to be in no danger of imminent extinction.

LH
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> 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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