I can't get my head around your pants issue.
In England we wear underpants and then we put on trousers.
You guys wear underpants then put on more pants

 

underpants is just what it says, they go under your pants. What do you call the thing you put your leg through, trouserlegs or pantlegs? We in the new world don't actually wear underpants, we wear gitch. Sometimes we wear underwear ie. what you wear under your outerwear.

 

Ok, I'd better explain

Gitch is short for groin itch. Gitch is what you pull on when you get an itch, gitch.

 

If you want to hear git/get used in song listen to John Lennon sing "Im so tired" on the Beatles White album.

"..... and curse Sir Walter Raleigh, he was such a stupid git/get, NO NO NO"

even at that time (1968) John recognised the negative qualities of tobacco!

 

Well we have short and long trousers so I suppose you put your foot through a trouser leg as you put them on.
Underpants are also called keks.
Thermal underwear is called Long Johns (dunno why).
Whats all this 'New World Stuff' ??

 

Hmmm, we call them long johns too.

The New World refering to North America as it was called in the 17th and 18th centuries. The lingo is the same in both Canada and the US of A.

 

Another tip if you ever come to England.....

I think you call somebodys bottom a 'fanny'....it means something totally different over here

And dont ever tell somebody they are full of spunk you may get punched in the face

A 'rubber' is used for removing pencil marks from paper

 

If you say to someone living in the UK, "you're hair looks kind of puffy", doesn't that mean that you're saying someone looks kind of gay. That eraser thing is pretty funny. When my cousin studied up in Shetford, somebody asked to borrow a rubber and promised to return it. He was like "say what!?!? First of all I don't have one on me, and if I did I don't want it back."

 

Lol......Put it this way, I would never go up to a bloke in a pub and call his hair 'puffy' There are definite homosexual meanings in that comment.

 

That's too funny. I have family and friends in England. It's so funny because I have to ask them what they're talking about. I didn't really think that Americans have accents and I argued that. LOL

I talk to two girls from two different contries that learned english and called their "panties", "shorts". Totally confused me.

Anyhow, I'd understand underpants and assume underwear. Undergarments I'd understand also. Boxers, briefs, mighty whities.

I think of a particular type of pants when I think of trousers. I know people who don't know what pants are. LOL