I agree with you completely, MC, that talking about pants and shorts in the singular is silly and by no means classy. I also never thought that in Britain anyone with any sense would talk that way, but in the U.S. I see it very often now in clothing advertisements, perhaps mostly in ads by tacky companies trying to be trendy. That's where the Madison Ave. aspect comes in, and I wouldn't be surprised to see it pop up in Britain some day soon. Check in the ads for companies that cater to the yuppie crowd. The pretentious reference, also in Britain, by the way, was to "the," sorry, to "Concorde." On the "QE2" I also heard the boat regularly reffered to as, simply, "QE2."

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