I am from the USA and everytime you use the word jumper I thought you were reffering to a dress style top so I did a search and found this....

Q] From Helen Schupp: “I’m curious about different meanings of the word jumper as an article of clothing. In the US, this refers to a type of dress with a pinafore-style top worn with a blouse or shirt; when my Australian daughter-in-law uses it, she means what I, an American English speaker, call a sweater or a sweatshirt.”

[A] The British usage also describes a sweater or pullover, that is, a knitted garment with long sleeves for the upper part of the body, though my impression is that pullover is rather old-fashioned, with sweater now much more common. Jumper seems to have appeared about the middle of the nineteenth century, originally for what the Oxford English Dictionary describes as “A kind of loose outer jacket or shirt reaching to the hips”, in other words what I would call a fisherman’s smock. The origin has nothing to do with the verb to jump, but comes from the dialect jump or jup, meaning a man’s short coat or a woman’s under-bodice or tunic. This may derive in turn from the French juppe, a petticoat (now in modern French, jupe, “skirt”), which ultimately derived from the Arabic jubba, a loose outer garment.

The word has evolved differently in Britain and the US; British usage has moved towards a garment that is specifically woollen, the US towards any upper-body garment for women. The OED refers to a catalogue of 1908 which talks about a loose-fitting blouse worn over a skirt, from which Americans later derived jumper suit for a jumper and skirt combination; I’ve found a plate in a Sears, Roebuck catalogue of 1916 that uses jumper frock to describe a pinafore dress worn over a blouse or shirt, which seems to be the original term, later shortened to jumper.




I always find it so interesting how I say a word and think of it as one thing and someone else might say it and it means something totally different.

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AWWW HOW CUTE!!!! im so glad that everyone knows that buffys pregnant. i love this story and am so happy u updated. i really hope that everything stays well with the baby and that harmony doesnt bother buffy anymore. also i hope that they stay together and that nothing comes between them. please update as soon as u can, i CANT wait to read more and see wat happens in the next chapter. thanx

Im so glad everyone knows, and that it is a girl!!! Jenny will be so happy !!!Please update soon!

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