I have a question for the wam fans in Europe. Why do you refer to underwear as knickers? In America, we call them panties which sounds way more sexy.

I dunno, just language things I guess.

To me, knickers sounds normal, and panties sounds almost purposefully invented to sound a certain way. Like it's trying too hard. That isn't criticism, I still use it in my video descriptions because sometimes I want that effect.

i guess the same reason you say faucet, or diaper its just evolution of language

It comes from knickerbockers, a type of trouser (and a fictional characters name).

To me 'panties' sounds childish, almost a shameful attempt to hide embarrassment. Funny how we hear things.

But then I don't think knickers sounds sexy either....off to google translate to see what works best; Culotte, bragas, Unterhose hmmm, not doing well...

I've found that most women abhor the word "panties" actually. The word itself doesn't sound sexy to me at all and is almost kinda silly, but the images it conjures in my head on the other hand are. So knickers, panties, undies, bikini briefs, they all create similar images in my head which are rather sexy.

There are many British terms that may not make sense.

For example, in the UK a "Public School" is not actually a school for regular public kids to go to, and a UK Public School is actually an elite "Private School" in American terminology. In the USA most people go to what they call Public Schools, but in the UK only rich kids and elites are lucky enough to go to a Public School.

When I was sent to New York on my first business trip, I got into trouble for asking the office secretary for a rubber (which is what Americans call an eraser). I soon found out that I had used the wrong word.

Interesting question, and as many have said, just how language has diverged over time.

In the UK, if you write with a pencil, you can use a rubber to rub out any mistakes or accidental extra marks. In ths US, a rubber is a condom, and rubbing people out was what Chicago gangsters used their tommy-guns for.

TBH I think panties is now the mainstream term in the UK, knickers being more of a term from the 80s and before? Though "gym knickers" are still a very specific thing, high-waist, full-cut bottoms of a tracksuit-like material, with elastic at the waist and both leg-holes, and which could be worn just as bottoms when exercising, or as undewear under a gymslip or games skirt, though probablty not under a tracksuit as they'd cause extreme VPL, being a thicker fabric than traditional underwear.

Gym knickers are superb for gunge-filling as they'll hold a fair bit before they leak.

If you look at old football (soccer) programmes and reports, they often used to refer to the shorts the male players wore as knickers, so it's only relatively recently that it became an exclusively feminine term. I like it personally, it has a mischievous sound to it!

OMG Mark I'm dying!!!

I can just imagine the look on that secretary face. She probably thought did he really just ask me for a rubber.

The uk is a melting pot. We understand most things with language. If someone said take off panties we know what it means similarly with knickers.
Again if I was in an office and someone asked me for a rubber I'd pass them one similarly if they asked for an eraser. If I was a pharmacist and they asked for a rubber I'd know it's a condom. Americans get too offended (no offence). Personally panties sounds stupid and babyish. I draw the line at Cilantro and egg plants though. My god what a world we live in