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There oughta be a law!
Method of Madness:
I've heard the whole leggings vs. pants before, and I still don't get it. Probably because the word "pants" to me means "something you wear from the waist down that covers your legs". I don't see how leggings aren't pants. Unpleasant looking and tight pants, sure, but pants nonetheless!
pwhodges:
Even ignoring the fact that pants has a different meaning where I live, do you really think of tights as pants also?
Method of Madness:
Why wouldn't I? Aren't they pants that dancers wear? Also don't you use the word trousers like I would use the word pants?
pwhodges:
Yes; but trousers would never extend to leggings or tights, and would only include jeans generically ("jeans are a type of unlined trouser*", yes; but not "pass me those trousers" when they are jeans).
* Yes, this is a rare sentence in which I would use the singular form!
Method of Madness:
Interesting. So trousers is not just a regional word for pants, since jeans are pants. Unless they're not. This is way too complicated.
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