UK v US language difficulties reply to post from MAIN

[Geoff Bannister]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Mrs. Lee Storm (God Is The Healing Force)" 
<n2fgc at ...> wrote:
>
> [Geoff B.]:
> | I mean, why do I put on trousers and trainers and a jumper (or a 
> | sweater) when my US counterpart has to put on pants, sneakers 
> | and a sweater? Mark you I'm already wearing pants before I put 
> | on trousers......
> | 
> | Funny old thing, language.
> 
> [Lee]:
> Which leads me to another Brit/US thing.  I have a friend who hadd a British
> co-worker who called that garment with long legs on it "Striders."  What be
> the dif between striders and trousers?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Lee :-)
> (Who just got her computer back from super-major replacement of 90% of it's
> parts and is trying oh so desperately to put things back to rights!)

Geoff:
Well, as a UK English native speaker, I've never heard of Striders..... I wonder 
whether it was a dialect word, or even a trade name, lke Hoover or Thermos.

Not so seriously though, perhaps Aragorn wore them? :-)