The early history of the word dungaree( s) is fairly straightforward: initially, as a mass-noun, it refers to a heavy, hard-wearing fabric, typically blue in colour, and probably taking its name from the port city north of Mumbai now known as Dongri (originally Dongari Killa, or ‘hill fort’, the name of a fortification at the port) from which the cloth was first traded to the West around the turn of the seventeenth century. Complicating this picture is the fact that in OED’s files there was more recent evidence that the association with work clothes had been partly lost in the US too, with people using dungareesas synonymous with jeans, with all the possibilities for colour and fabric variation that the latter term now carries. So, how simple is the divide between British and U.S. (or wider North American) use? And how is the term used in other English-speaking regions? The Canadian Oxford Dictionarygives both senses, while Australian dictionaries give only the older, more general ‘work clothes’ sense. Add a versatile piece to your wardrobe that you'll want to wear all spring and summer with Lee® Dungarees shorts. These shorts are perfect for exploring nature when paired with a casual tee. But they're also chic enough for formal events when paired with a short-sleeved button-down top. Comfortable Lee® Dungaree Cargo Shorts What are usually referred to in British English as dungareesare known as bib overallsor simply overallsin American English.)

One way we’d usually try to answer these questions, and to—hopefully—verify existing accounts of the word’s use and our own research, would be to use evidence from our digital corpora (massive databases of grammatically tagged and searchable texts). The numbers of examples of dungareesoutside of Britain and the United States are not high, but they seem to refer to the British idea, contradicting, to a certain extent, the evidence of the non-US/British regional dictionaries. But, large corpora of international English tend to be drawn largely or exclusively from newspaper sources, and this might show use in fashion journalism that prefers a more specific, ‘technical’ vocabulary than that in widespread use in regional varieties of English. Wir erstatten oder tauschen Ihre Bestellung gerne innerhalb von 30 Tagen nach Eingang Ihrer ursprünglichen Bestellung um

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