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Why is ‘bra’ singular and ‘panties’ plural?
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and general attitude that is used to enrage other users into arguements.
you know this won't end well.
There are certain posters who are offended by a general attitude that is used to enrage other users into arguements. (sic)
They are saving themselves for marriage, and you are causing carnal lust in their hearts
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you know this won't end well.
There are certain posters who are offended by a general attitude that is used to enrage other users into arguements. (sic)
They are saving themselves for marriage, and you are causing carnal lust in their hearts
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Why all the straw men? My god is pussy. fVck your god?
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@natalee.007 just might break the internets. That is unless @mathildtantot doesn't beat her to it. 
Holy shlt she is some special kinda beautiful@natalee.007 just might break the internets. That is unless @mathildtantot doesn't beat her to it.
uhhhh OK...and general attitude that is used to enrage other users into arguements.
you know this won't end well.
There are certain posters who are offended by a general attitude that is used to enrage other users into arguements. (sic)
They are saving themselves for marriage, and you are causing carnal lust in their hearts
@Jonahbrah will no longer be attending this thread
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Why all the straw men? My god is pussy. fVck your god?
Well I got busted looking at those nice pictures. Wife comes to tell me dinner is ready and says, "What are you looking at?". All I had to say is it is the ERB and she laughed. Her reply is that bra is short for brassiere so that is why it's not plural. The only thing she could come up with for panties is it's two legs. Pants, pantalones, chones, even scissors follows that logic, but then there is underwear. That throws it all at the window.
Gonna need pics of wife to see if her opinion is credible.
and why are chonies plural but underwear singular? so many mysteries beneath the clothes
Underwear can be plural also, like “resort wear” which describes a style involving multiple pieces of clothing.
Similar to deer and deer.
You’d never say underwears.
However, a suit is singular even though it describes multiple pieces, but a wetsuit is one piece usually.
can we get back to bra and panties?
why yes. Yes we can...
The singular is reserved for the deranged and immature: panty sniffer, panty raider. They both invade the panty drawer.
Panties - Literally: "little pants." The suffix puts it in the same category as "booties" and "blankies"—words often associated with small children. In fact, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first known use of "panties" is from a 1908 set of instructions for making doll clothes.
Pants - Whoa! -
In US English, the word pants isn't a particularly funny one. It's the most common term for that very common piece of clothing that covers the body from the waist to the ankle (give or take), with a separate part for each leg.
But the word pants is rooted in comedy.
Image of Pantalone. The word 'pants' comes to us from an Anglicization of the character's name, "Pantaloon."
The word comes from the name of a stock figure in the commedia dell’arte, a form of Italian comic theater popular throughout Europe from about the 16th to the mid-18th century. Pantalone, as he was called, was a greedy, lecherous, scheming old man who often ended up being duped and humiliated. His costume consisted of a soft brimless hat; a pleated black cassock (typically worn open); slippers; and a vest, breeches, and stockings that were conspicuously red and tight-fitting. In later representations of the character, the breeches and stockings were replaced by long trousers.
When trousers of a similar style became popular during the Restoration in England, they became known as pantaloons, Pantaloon being an Anglicization of Pantalone. Fashions changed over the years, but pantaloons continued to be the word used to refer to various types of trousers. Americans clipped the term to pants in the early 19th century, and that shorter word became a standard term for the garment, serving also as the basis for new formations denoting new garments, such as underpants and panties.
The shortened form pants alone was considered vulgar by some language commentators for quite some time.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, pants appeared in an insulting assertion about a person's name: to say that someone's name was pants meant to say that you didn't like or trust that person, much like in the still-used expression "your name is mud."
Pants by itself has of course continued in US English to refer to trousers, but in British English, pants is used most often to refer to what Americans call underpants—which, makes the word a good bit funnier across the pond, at least for 8-year-olds and anyone who shares their sense of humor.
And the British have taken the humor to another level: since the 1990s, British English speakers have also used pants informally to mean "nonsense," as in "It's ridiculous; the whole thing is pants" or "The whole thing is a pile of pants."
Pants - Whoa! -
In US English, the word pants isn't a particularly funny one. It's the most common term for that very common piece of clothing that covers the body from the waist to the ankle (give or take), with a separate part for each leg.
But the word pants is rooted in comedy.
Image of Pantalone. The word 'pants' comes to us from an Anglicization of the character's name, "Pantaloon."
The word comes from the name of a stock figure in the commedia dell’arte, a form of Italian comic theater popular throughout Europe from about the 16th to the mid-18th century. Pantalone, as he was called, was a greedy, lecherous, scheming old man who often ended up being duped and humiliated. His costume consisted of a soft brimless hat; a pleated black cassock (typically worn open); slippers; and a vest, breeches, and stockings that were conspicuously red and tight-fitting. In later representations of the character, the breeches and stockings were replaced by long trousers.
When trousers of a similar style became popular during the Restoration in England, they became known as pantaloons, Pantaloon being an Anglicization of Pantalone. Fashions changed over the years, but pantaloons continued to be the word used to refer to various types of trousers. Americans clipped the term to pants in the early 19th century, and that shorter word became a standard term for the garment, serving also as the basis for new formations denoting new garments, such as underpants and panties.
The shortened form pants alone was considered vulgar by some language commentators for quite some time.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, pants appeared in an insulting assertion about a person's name: to say that someone's name was pants meant to say that you didn't like or trust that person, much like in the still-used expression "your name is mud."
Pants by itself has of course continued in US English to refer to trousers, but in British English, pants is used most often to refer to what Americans call underpants—which, makes the word a good bit funnier across the pond, at least for 8-year-olds and anyone who shares their sense of humor.
And the British have taken the humor to another level: since the 1990s, British English speakers have also used pants informally to mean "nonsense," as in "It's ridiculous; the whole thing is pants" or "The whole thing is a pile of pants."
Expression, “your name is mud” came from Dr. Samuel Mudd who treated John Wilkes Booth’s broken leg which Booth suffered jumping from Lincoln’s theatre box seats to the stage to escape. Mudd was sentenced to life in prison but was eventually released...
Should've kissed 'im upside the cranium with that aluminum baseball bat.
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erBB history lessons!Panties - Literally: "little pants." The suffix puts it in the same category as "booties" and "blankies"—words often associated with small children. In fact, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first known use of "panties" is from a 1908 set of instructions for making doll clothes.
Pants - Whoa! -
In US English, the word pants isn't a particularly funny one. It's the most common term for that very common piece of clothing that covers the body from the waist to the ankle (give or take), with a separate part for each leg.
But the word pants is rooted in comedy.
Image of Pantalone. The word 'pants' comes to us from an Anglicization of the character's name, "Pantaloon."
The word comes from the name of a stock figure in the commedia dell’arte, a form of Italian comic theater popular throughout Europe from about the 16th to the mid-18th century. Pantalone, as he was called, was a greedy, lecherous, scheming old man who often ended up being duped and humiliated. His costume consisted of a soft brimless hat; a pleated black cassock (typically worn open); slippers; and a vest, breeches, and stockings that were conspicuously red and tight-fitting. In later representations of the character, the breeches and stockings were replaced by long trousers.
When trousers of a similar style became popular during the Restoration in England, they became known as pantaloons, Pantaloon being an Anglicization of Pantalone. Fashions changed over the years, but pantaloons continued to be the word used to refer to various types of trousers. Americans clipped the term to pants in the early 19th century, and that shorter word became a standard term for the garment, serving also as the basis for new formations denoting new garments, such as underpants and panties.
The shortened form pants alone was considered vulgar by some language commentators for quite some time.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, pants appeared in an insulting assertion about a person's name: to say that someone's name was pants meant to say that you didn't like or trust that person, much like in the still-used expression "your name is mud."
Pants by itself has of course continued in US English to refer to trousers, but in British English, pants is used most often to refer to what Americans call underpants—which, makes the word a good bit funnier across the pond, at least for 8-year-olds and anyone who shares their sense of humor.
And the British have taken the humor to another level: since the 1990s, British English speakers have also used pants informally to mean "nonsense," as in "It's ridiculous; the whole thing is pants" or "The whole thing is a pile of pants."
I learned at an LACMA exhibition that pants came from the French revolution. It was the working class' dress. If it weren't for them we might still be wearing britches and stockings.