Re: canadian usage

From: Mark Brader (msb_at_vex.net)
Date: 03/18/05 

Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 06:03:55 -0000

I (Mark Brader) posted:
> > 2. This slang word for underpants is probably of Eastern
> > European origin.
>
> -snip-
>
> > 2. gotch, gotchies, or gonchies
 
Harvey Van Sickle:
> I've never heard of that one. Is it extremely old, regionally
> restricted, or very new (that is, within the past 20 years)?

I heard it when I was in school in the 1960s, and my impression
is that this was after I moved from Alberta to southern Ontario.
However, the answer ***, and so presumably the dictionary cited,
asserts that this is used "west of the Alberta-Saskatchewan border". 

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