[HPFGU-OTChatter] Brit-Speak: clothing

[Kara Botbyl]

>From: "Kathryn Cawte" <kcawte at ntlworld.com>
>Reply-To: HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com
>To: <HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com>
>Subject: Re: [HPFGU-OTChatter] Brit-Speak: clothing
>Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 18:38:54 -0000
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> > {Kathryn Cawte wrote}:
> > | A jumper is what Americans call a sweater.
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> > {Lee}:
> > Okay, I haven't read through all the stuff here, so my query may have 
>been
> > answered; if so, just pop me a note off list.
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> > If a jumper is an American sweater, then what do the Brits call the
> > sleeveless dress-like garment under which one might wear a long-sleeved
> > blouse?  This is what we call a jumper...or used to when I was about
>twenty
> > or thirty years younger. :-)
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>K
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>A Pinafore or pinafore dress I should think. Apparently a pinafore is also
>an apron that has a top rather than just covering from the waist down
>(that's what my father says anyway, personally I'd just call it an apron)
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>K
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I'm an American from New Jersey.....I'm 18 and we call a jumper Over alls 
now. You know what farmers wear, or a jumper a jump suit anything thats a 
one piece outfit. You know what I'm talking about...lol

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