re: Why do coonasses refer to shorts as "short pants" ?

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Ever here a Cajun call a garden hose a "hose pipe"?

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More of a New Orleans/up/down the bayou term. Not at all common in southwest Louisiana (St. Martin, Lafayette, St. Landry, Vermilion, Cameron parishes)

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The expression "making groceries"

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Also less common in those area's (though actually more common among the creole communities).

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"short pants"

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Actually it seems like I have heard this term used but people who's first language is one of the latin languages other than French (Itallian, Spanish, and Portuguese).