At 7/16/08 08:07 AM, nazmdeh wrote:
Chips are not crisps, they are what you americans call 'french fries'.
Chips are hot. Otherwise they are crisps, as demonstrated by the fact that they are thin, and somewhat... crispy. Crisps. create habitats in air tight foil containers.
French fries are like those real thin ones, as opposed to the big fish and chips stylings, which are... funnily enough, 'chips'.
If you called wither of the two just plain old chips, you wouldn't get any worrying glances.
This is the same for 'pants'.
Pants are underwear not trousers.
Pants are items of clothing which you wear around your waist and legs. Pants can mean anything of that nature. Trousers are specifically long pants, ie, you cant have a pair of trousers which only go to your knees but you can have a pair of pants which do.
Also, trousers are all dressupy.
And slightly sophisticated.
They don't become 'underpants' without the 'under'.
Also, 'underpants' is so much better than 'underwear'.