So, what about britches? Oliver Barry, CRS, GRI Real Estate Broker Bob Parks, LLC 1517 Hunt Club Blvd Gallatin TN 37066 615-972-4239 615-826-4040 Sent from my iPhone
On Aug 30, 2011, at 9:41 AM, John Vega <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Aug 29, 2011, at 11:38 PM, Arthur Polhill wrote: > >> Thanks, Helen. When I was growing up I hated that my birthday came at the >> beginning of a new school year. Every year it was the same: new school >> shoes, new shirts, dungarees (that's what we called them back then), > > Interesting word, there... > > -Zeb > > > ------------ > > from: http://www.word-detective.com/2008/12/18/dungarees-jeans/ > > “Dungarees” is indeed simply another, now antiquated, term for what we call > “jeans,” casual trousers made of denim, most often blue in color. The name > “dungarees” is a relic of the British colonial presence in India. “Dungri” > was the Hindi name of a particular type of thick, durable cotton cloth > exported from India to England in the 18th century, originally used to make > sails and tents. Eventually “dungri” cloth was pressed into service in the > manufacture of work clothes, gained an extra syllable in its name, and became > “dungaree.” > > I doubt that if you were to wander into the average American department store > today and ask for a pair of “dungarees” that the clerk would know where to > look, but while the term has definitely faded on this side of the Atlantic, > it seems to have acquired a new meaning in Britain. According to a draft > addition to the Oxford English Dictionary dated 2006, “dungaree” over there > now means “trousers with a bib held up by shoulder straps,” or what we in the > US have been calling “overalls” for the past 150 years. > > “Jeans,” as in “blue jeans,” has a remarkably simple origin. It’s simply an > altered form of the name “Genoa,” in Italy, once an important source of the > cloth. Similarly, “denim” is a mutation of “serge de Nimes,” referring to > Nimes, France, also an early source of the fabric. > > -- > GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! > 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions > 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions > 2008 National Football Champions | > Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), > Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us -- GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions 2008 National Football Champions | Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us
