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Subject: Re: First Trip to Italy Posted on: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 10:34:27 +0200

Following up to The Reid :

>Following up to B Vaughan wrote:
>
>>>http://www.marksandspencer.com/gp/node/n/43593030/202-4927060-2851843?ie=UTF8&mnSBrand=core
>>
>>I had never seen this usage before in English. It seems just to be a
>>very particular kind of underpants, the very brief brief. Is that so?
>>Is it a fairly new usage?
>
>I've never seen or heard it used in that way. New word? Marketing
>word?


the underpant equivalent of "speedo" swimming trunks, I suppose.
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Tim C.