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Dave Romm wrote: > Really? Than this is an A/E difference. 'Elastic' for belt... No, elastic for elastic. > > They might, however, wear a belt with trousers, or a skirt. > > And trousers are different than pants... how? Why does a skirt > need a belt? Trousers are trousers. Pants are underpants. Which I find really annoying, because I cannot bring myself to call jeans "trousers", but I've run into sentences where I wanted to distinguish them specifically from skirts/dresses and not really been able to find the right construction. And to make matters worse, saying "blue jeans" is also American - here they are just "jeans". A. Carol Feminists Against Censorship http://www.fullfeed.com/hypatia/censor.html ------------------------------------------------------------- "[La Prensa] accused us of suppressing freedom of expression. This was a lie and we could not let them publish it." - Nelba Blandon, Interior Ministry of Censorship, quoted in the New York Times, 1984.