Cow and Boy Classics by Mark Leiknes for March 26, 2012

I’ve wondered about that myself. As Billy says, you never wear a sweater under conditions when you actually expect to sweat. Just the opposite.

It’s one of those common oddities in language. It was originally just what it sounds like, a garment intended to produce sweating and reduce weight. The name was then used in more of the modern way, to describe a rowing garment, and then for all such thing, as today.

Or we could take a cue from the Brits, and call it a jumper.

^ Right behind you!

I’ve always called them tenni runners.

Many years ago in Broomhilda, Irwin called his a persperationer.