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re: Why do coonasses refer to shorts as "short pants" ?
Posted on 12/14/16 at 6:06 pm to MetryMike
Posted on 12/14/16 at 6:06 pm to MetryMike
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Ponder these while sitting on the banquette by the neutral ground while eating beignets
Neutral ground came from Canal St separating the new Americans from those in the Quarter
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Posted on 12/14/16 at 6:07 pm to S
Just don't call them trousers unless you're ready to pull them up to your nipples.
Posted on 12/14/16 at 6:16 pm to MetryMike
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Ever here a Cajun call a garden hose a "hose pipe"?
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"
Also less common in those area's (though actually more common among the creole communities).
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"short pants"
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).
Posted on 12/15/16 at 10:28 am to S
I don't think the "short pants" and "long pants" is a cajun thing. I grew up in Alabama, and that's how I referred to them. I've got a buddy from Tucker, GA who does the same. I had never even realized it until my wife (not from the south, no pics) pointed it out.
Posted on 12/16/16 at 12:54 pm to mdomingue
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@JayBilas In Syracuse for SU-Georgetown tomorrow at noon. Short pants were a bad choice.
Posted on 12/16/16 at 12:57 pm to S
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Why do coonasses refer to shorts as "short pants" ?
My dad calls them short pants. I didn't realize this was widespread. Posted on 12/16/16 at 1:31 pm to S
I did some contract work in Jersey years ago. Old school Italians called them the same thing.
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