Comments | ineptsleep: on a less serious note

ineptsleep

on a less serious note

Feb 28, 2006 15:12

Drop trau/trou/trow?

nothing in the stylebook, I'm thinking trou based on the urban dictionary and a few AP articles, my ol'fogey editor insists it's trow.

Comments 6

squidrigailov February 28 2006, 20:46:31 UTC

googlefight sez drop trou. too bad there's no such thing as lexisnexisfight.

jurph February 28 2006, 21:31:58 UTC

Um, "trou" short for "trousers". Find the authoritative spelling of "trousers" and you'll have him in the back of a Volkswagen.

egyptiankarim February 28 2006, 21:33:06 UTC

DARN YOU BEATING ME TO POST!

egyptiankarim February 28 2006, 21:32:44 UTC

my vote is for 'trou' as it is a truncation of the word 'trouser' which is in holding with the original intent of the phrase.

dantesaint March 1 2006, 07:34:44 UTC

träu.

longfeat March 1 2006, 18:05:09 UTC

it has to be trou(sers), though träu is superior is so many ways, including getting livejournal to give you an umlaut. (but, wait, wouldn't träu be pronounced troy? or is this not German? yeah, it will turn out to be Dutch or Afrikaans, or something else not Deutsch and sure not English with its utter lack of visual embellishment ... )