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 @arthur_affect
Not once, growing up in the UK and living there till I was 26, did I hear a single person use the word "denims" aloud. I didn't even clock that that was a word that appeared in the books. Also, for a split second I thought you meant HP [Sauce] fandom and was very confused...
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Replying to @OneiricCanid
It isn't in the books, it's a random fandom thing
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Oh huh, where the actual hell did they get that from? Just a random game of online linguistic Telephone?
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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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