"Slacks"

[Jonathan Lighter]

OK, OK. I say it when women wear them.

JL

On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

> I never say "slacks."
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> JL
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> On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 12:07 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> FWIW, for a *very* long time, perhaps into my forties, men wore pants
>> or trousers, but only chicks wore slacks or had the word in their
>> active vocabularies, since only they ever had occasion to use the
>> word. It's like my thinking fpr a similar period of time that (all)
>> Americans "look _around_" and "break _aloose_," whereas only users of
>> dialects of Britspeak 'look _round_' and 'break _loose_'.
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