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Q: Examples of things made in China that you cant buy in China?

My example is fishing tackle. I like to fish English methods, Avon rod, waggler floats, hooks to nylon and all that.

It is mostly made in China, but I cant buy it here. I need to ask UK colleagues to buy it and bring it over. Last week a mate brought me over a fantastic GW Young Avon rod... complete with made in China label.

What do you have to import that is made here?

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I think the All Black Rugby jersey is made in china but not sure if you can buy here or not.

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i bought a branded laptop frm ovrseas. made in china. (same is unavailabl here in englsh systm).

ScotsAlan:

Yup. I bought windows 8 from uk. Done a clean install with it.

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I bought Pierre Carden boxer undies, fine, 100% cotton for 600 RMB (3 pairs) in Anshan's Parkson in 2011. I am still using it i.e. very good quality.

I'd say, you can't buy it in China because trademark retailer is selling it for much higher price than Chinese standard. Also tax and other regulations which original trademark impose on their own people. Chinese might not agree with the same regulations, so everything made in China must get to the trademark country first .....'add-it': I just see your 'cant' now. I read 'can' at first. I usually 'scan' more than really 'read'.

ScotsAlan:

I wonder... why is a pair of pants a pair? A pair of pants, a pair of trousers... why not a pair of shirts?

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You know me ... 'is this right Englo writing ?' always before I hit 'enter' and I had same thing in me mind. One piece of underwear (with 2 hoses ) and 'why I must say pair?'

 

I am digging for link you AngloSaxoners .... why pair

 

https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/pair-of-underwear.212568/

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more 'why pair of undies ...' links:

 

http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-pai1.htm

 

I’ve looked at the entry in the Oxford English Dictionary, which suggests that the form pair of pantswas standard right from its earliest use. Indeed, words for nether garments all seem to have been commonly plural throughout their history, often prefixed by pair of ...breechesshortsdrawerspantiestightsknickers (short for knickerbockers), and trousers.

Pants is short for pantaloons, also plural, which in their very earliest incarnations were nearer stage tights; their name comes from a Venetian character in Italian commedia dell’arte who was the butt of the clown’s jokes and who always appeared as a foolish old man wearing pantaloons. Commentators referred to them when they first appeared as being a combination of breeches and stockings. Later the word was applied to fashionable tight-fitting trousers.

Trousers came into the language in the seventeenth century from the Gaelic trowse, a singular word for a slightly different garment rather more like breeches; a later version of it was trews, taken to be a plural because of the final sBreeches has been plural throughout its recorded history, a long one (it dates from at least the year 1200).

According to several costume historians who have helped me with this reply, the answer to all this conventional plurality is very simple. Before the days of modern tailoring, such garments, whether underwear or outerwear, were indeed made in two parts, one for each leg. The pieces were put on each leg separately and then wrapped and tied or belted at the waist (just like cowboys’ chaps). The plural usage persisted out of habit even after the garments had become physically one piece. However, a shirt was a single piece of cloth, so it was always singular.

It’s worth noting that the posher type of tailor, such as in London’s Savile Row, still often refers to a trouser and the singular pant and tight are not unknown in clothing store terminology in America — so the plural is not universal. 

 

Robin Hood is back ... 

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My Chinese students in Canada have to be shown how to use a garbage disposal before they move into a Canada homestay family, they still don't believe garbage disposals are made in China until they get there and read the labels. PRICELESS!!!

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