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Panties are women's form-fitting underpants. Typical components include an elastic waistband , a crotch panel to cover the genitalia (usually lined with absorbent material such as cotton ), and a pair of leg openings that, like the waistband, are often made of elastomer .
"Panties" is a general term for female underpants. There are a number of different styles including bikinis, boyshorts, briefs, cheekies, g-strings, hipsters, and thongs. The UK English equivalent is "knickers".
According to Microsoft® Encarta® 2009, (panty)hose is a plural noun itself as is tights or oats (the e and unlike, say, "sheep (plural sheep)" or hose in its meaning of "flexible tube", which shows the usual plural hoses. All this information is at odds, so it's impossible to know what pair "hose - hosen" the article is referrring to.
The word 'StudentInnen' (a capital i identifies this to be a word meaning 'Studenten' [male students] and 'Studentinnen' [female students]) is regarded non-Standard German and should be avoided. This way of signalizing a plural noun was first used by sociologists and most Germans consider this to be an ugly way of making a short plural form.
soft bread roll or a sandwich made from it (this itself is a regional usage in the UK rather than a universal one); in plural, breasts (vulgar slang e.g. "get your baps out, love"); a person's head (Northern Ireland). [21] barmaid *, barman a woman or man who serves drinks in a bar.
The quantity of apples is marked on the noun—"apple" singular number (one item) vs. "apples" plural number (more than one item)—on the demonstrative, that/those, and on the verb, is/are. In the second sentence, all this information is redundant, since quantity is already indicated by the numeral two.
The plural may be used to emphasise the plurality of the attribute, especially in British English but very rarely in American English: a careers advisor, a languages expert. The plural is also more common with irregular plurals for various attributions: women killers are women who kill, whereas woman killers are those who kill women.
No they shouldn't be merged together as panties represents thongs, knickers, g-strings etc whereas knickers are just knickers. Panties is an americanism whereas knickers is britsh and europeon. --Scorpio95 00:04, 21 July 2009 (UTC) In the USA "knickers" doesn't generally mean "panties" (although I've heard it used this way a little recently).