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Plugin: American => British Translation of "pants" to "Trousers" is wrong when "pants" is a verb #16366
changed the title [-]American => British Translation of "pants" to "Trousers" is wrong when "pants" is a verb[/-][+]Plugin: American => British Translation of "pants" to "Trousers" is wrong when "pants" is a verb[/+]on Oct 23, 2026
Honestly, I think deleting these kinds of words would open up problems for others. It's a good thing that the rules are strict and - as always with automatically search-replacing a lot of text - it requires checking afterwards. It depends very much on context if it is acceptable to have pants or movies or lifts in a British subtitle or not, so I would be glad to have this included in the list rather than excluded by default.
No-one is getting in to problems when "pants" does not get replaced by "trousers".
The plugin is there for a British subtitle to replace American spelling with British spelling.
If this is not done (word pairs are deleted) there is nothing wrong.
The word "pants" is a word, although not originaly British, but any British will not see as an American word. (EDIT: it's British)
But that's beside the point...
If the word is used as a verb, "she pants" it has a complete and different meaning.
You use "she pants" on both sides of the ocean and if you replace it with "she trousers" you get a ridiculous subtitle.
The other 3 word pairs are used on both sides of the ocean and I don't think they belong there.
But that's not that important.
Thanks! Fixed in American to British v1.8.0 (SubtitleEdit/plugins#342), now available in the plugin list.
"She pants heavily" is no longer changed. Some other words that also have a second meaning are no longer converted American to British either:
pants (verb)
tire/tires (verb: "I never tire of it")
draft/drafts (document, military or sports draft)
practice/practices and license (British noun/verb)
program/programs (computer program)
meter/meters (parking or gas meter)
install/installs
British to American still converts these, since that direction is correct (trousers → pants, tyre → tire). Other pairs like movie → film are kept, as @accessallareas suggested, so please check the preview before applying.
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[-]American => British Translation of "pants" to "Trousers" is wrong when "pants" is a verb[/-][+]Plugin: American => British Translation of "pants" to "Trousers" is wrong when "pants" is a verb[/+]fraternl commentedon Oct 24, 2026
I think the translation shouldn't happen at all.
British use American words like "pants".
The subtitle in English is used when its in English.
It's a bit strange when they say "pants" and the subtitle is "trousers".
If you remove it you don't have to fix it.
Same for other words like
accessallareas commentedon Nov 4, 2026
Honestly, I think deleting these kinds of words would open up problems for others. It's a good thing that the rules are strict and - as always with automatically search-replacing a lot of text - it requires checking afterwards. It depends very much on context if it is acceptable to have pants or movies or lifts in a British subtitle or not, so I would be glad to have this included in the list rather than excluded by default.
fraternl commentedon Nov 5, 2026
No-one is getting in to problems when
"pants"does not get replaced by"trousers".The plugin is there for a British subtitle to replace American spelling with British spelling.
If this is not done (word pairs are deleted) there is nothing wrong.
The word "
pants" is a word, although not originaly British, but any British will not see as an American word. (EDIT: it's British)But that's beside the point...
If the word is used as a verb, "
she pants" it has a complete and different meaning.You use "
she pants" on both sides of the ocean and if you replace it with "she trousers" you get a ridiculous subtitle.The other 3 word pairs are used on both sides of the ocean and I don't think they belong there.
But that's not that important.
"
she trousers heavily" gives a wrong subtitle.fraternl commentedon Nov 5, 2026
This is what ChatGPT has to say.
Interesting is that it makes it a "British English" word.
So it shouldn't be "translated" at all.
"Pants (verb) and pants (noun) are a homonym, more precisely a homograph.
Interestingly, they are also pronounced differently:
So they are homographs and homonyms, but not different-sounding words."
niksedk commentedon Nov 5, 2026
Thanks! Fixed in American to British v1.8.0 (SubtitleEdit/plugins#342), now available in the plugin list.
"She pants heavily" is no longer changed. Some other words that also have a second meaning are no longer converted American to British either:
British to American still converts these, since that direction is correct (trousers → pants, tyre → tire). Other pairs like movie → film are kept, as @accessallareas suggested, so please check the preview before applying.