Quick survey: “pajamas” or “pyjamas” — which do you say? Are they pronounced the same?
When I was growing up we called them PJs most of the time, but it was always pajamas if we didn’t shorten it. Lately I’ve read a lot of references to pyjamas, which I understand to be the British form. Is it more wide-spread than that or do I just read a lot of anglophiles?
The classic two-piece pajamas never fit me like this:
[Nothing about me ever looked like that.] I was always tall and skinny so the sleeves ended well above my wrists and the pants well above my ankles. They were never comfortable to wear at all much less sleep in. Shorts and a T-shirt became the sleepwear of choice for a long time. These days more often than not I call my PJs… nothin’. [smirk]
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Did you post this for me??
You know I have a jammie thing! If I had my way, I’d wear them 24-7. And none of that cutesie disney crap, I am all about beautiful, elegant,and graceful jammies–although boxers and a tank top work too.
And yea, I say jammies.
–snow
pajamas or jammies
but like you mine are generally skin.
Most guys I know, esp. ones without kids, sleep nude. I’m too cold to do so. I usually say PJs, but if using the longer name, I’d say it the first way.
i had to say it out loud because i couldn’t remember. i pronounce it pyjamas. altho, i usually say “jam jams”
pjs but I only wear them as my career clothes, for bed, nuthin.