Re: Oddities With Understudies
Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2011 4:07 am
Parents get their kids confused all the time. It's authentic.shimmyshimmy wrote:"Billy, what are you doing in your underwear?"
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Parents get their kids confused all the time. It's authentic.shimmyshimmy wrote:"Billy, what are you doing in your underwear?"
Oh yes, we have a variety slang terms for underwear - grundies, undercrackers, keks, dung hampers, knickers (for girls) but yes pants too. There is a common rule of thumb in the UK - why have one word to describe something when you can have 20?shimmyshimmy wrote:I've never heard the word "keks". But I have heard Brits call underwear pants and they call pants trousers or troosers in Scotland.Yorkie wrote:My mother called me by the dogs name once.............
No, that line (about Tony in his keks) isn't in the London show.