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.
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
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Thanks.