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posted by [identity profile] realinterrobang.livejournal.com at 09:21pm on 2005-01-29
What are "tidywhities"? Is that some kind of girl version of "tighty whities"?

Do I need to find an internet copy of the Dictionary of American Regional English?!
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posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 09:25pm on 2005-01-29
I assumed that they meant "tighty whities" and considered replacing "tidywhities" with that phrase in square brackets, but decided to leave it as it was Just In Case it's a regionalism or something.
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posted by [identity profile] leiacat.livejournal.com at 12:15am on 2005-01-30
It seems to be a less frequent but certainly not at all uncommon way of referring to the same thing.
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posted by [identity profile] realinterrobang.livejournal.com at 05:15am on 2005-01-30
I can see the derivation -- seems to be an ease of articulation thing, but OTOH, it really destroys the parallelism and the rhyme... /English Lit/Linguistics Geek

Thanks.
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