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Ask for help > Difference between PANTS - TROUSERS and COAT - JACKET
Difference between PANTS - TROUSERS and COAT - JACKET
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Jen214
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Difference between PANTS - TROUSERS and COAT - JACKET
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Dear friends, I have the problem with two couple words "PANTS-TROUSERS" and "COAT-JACKET"...Anyone can help me distinguishthese words please...I need to be clear before teaching my students today... Thank a lot :) |
18 Oct 2011
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douglas
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Pants and trousers are the same thing. "Pants" is more often used in the USA and "trousers" in the UK.
Coat vs jacket is a luittle different--generally a coat is longer (and often heavier) than a jacket, but thta tis often discussed--see the link below.
Douglas
Edit--here is something else from a forum on the web:
coat - a long (past around hip level) top garment
jacket - a short (above around hip level) top garment and also the top half of a suit.
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18 Oct 2011
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Zora
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Douglas is correct, might I add that "pants" in the UK normally refers to "underpants". Also, in Canada, we tend (I say tend but it �s not a norm and not everybody does it) to use pants for women and trousers for men.
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18 Oct 2011
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libertybelle
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And to add to the confusion:
Underpants are also called knickers in the UK
Knickers in the US are pants that go the knees.
You can wear a coat over a jacket but not a jacket over a coat.
A woolen jacket is also called a blazer.
Jackets are short - and can be worn indoors - but you don �t often wear a coat
indoors - it is an outer garment!
Not all coats are long.
Trousers, in the US are like slacks and have a crease or pleated edge going down the front.
Pants are more informal - like jeans or chinos.
I think all pants are called trousers in the UK. (not completely sure about this)
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18 Oct 2011
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Zora
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Yes, I think you are right Lisa all "pants" are basically called trousers in the UK. I was on Marks and Spencers web page a few days ago and I saw that in the Ladies section of the page, the "pants" were called "trousers."
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19 Oct 2011
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spinney
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We tend to say "pants" for "underpants" in the UK which explains why we tend to smile and look all smug when Americans refer to the colour of people �s pants. We also use pants when something isn �t very good.
e.g. "How was the film?"
"It was pants!"
Although it is highly colloquial. A bit like saying "something sucks." |
19 Oct 2011
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cheezels
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When I was a classroom teacher in the UK I got paint all over my "pants" and said "oh no I have paint all over my pants",
There was a lot of suppressed giggling from my younger students.
At the time I had no idea that they thought I was referring to my underwear!
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19 Oct 2011
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yanogator
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A jacket can also be an outer garment, like a coat, but usually shorter and lighter.
Bruce |
19 Oct 2011
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