The best answer to this question is how the American HP fandom somehow got it in their heads that British people don't say "jeans" and in the UK they're called "denims"https://twitter.com/BootlegGirl/status/1295530510857502720 …
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect
Yes I would also like to know what
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Replying to @Teknogrot @BootlegGirl
The US Harry Potter fandom community around websites like http://fanfiction.net was fairly insular and weirdly concerned with authenticity, after everyone found out about the change from "Philosopher's Stone" to "Sorcerer's Stone" for the US edition etc
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There's really not that much to the story Apparently some fanfic writer made the idiosyncratic choice to refer to Harry, Ron and Hermione in Muggle street clothes as wearing "denims", and a ton of fanfic enthusiasts assumed this was a Britishism
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And this misconception just chugged merrily along with American fanfic writers carefully describing Harry's street clothes as "denims" in the year after Goblet of Fire came out
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It didn't stop until apparently this hilariously public incident where they had a group chat with big names in the fanfic community, one of whom was a British guy, and when he mentioned "jeans" people were like "Oh you mean denims" and he was like "what"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
... yanks.pic.twitter.com/7RVATW8zQA
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Admittedly, after having learned the British meaning of terms like "jumper" and "trainer" it would be fair for an American to assume that every article of clothing has some kind of weird name across the pond
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
I don't agree with that being fair, but I do expect it to be true.
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