Re: USAGE: Language revival

Raymond Brown wrote:
>
> At 5:26 pm -0500 30/11/99, nicole perrin wrote:
> >John Cowan wrote:
> >>
> >> Nik Taylor wrote:
> >>
> >> > Incidentally, I read that "forehead" was once pronounced something like
> >> > /forId/, with the h being re-introduced.
> >>
> >> /fOrId/.  I say this, and my wife tells me it's insufferably pretentious.
> >> Of course, /tuzdi/ is insufferably lowbrow.  So I can't win.  :-)
> >>
> >
> >
> >haha, I always say /'tjysdei/, and once a little kid said to me "What
> >does /chusdei/ mean?" - I couldn't stop laughing.  All my friends
> >though, think I speak a very strange dialect of English.  I pronounce
> >all the letters in badminton.
> >
> >and what is /wEskIt/? (I'm totally clueless)
>
> It's spelt "waistcoat" and becomes a 'vest' when it crosses the Atlantic
> (and our vests becoming undervests, I believe)
>
LOL, I was so completely not thinking of that.  I said it out loud and
all I could think was "basket" because it almost rhymes.  But FWIW, I
have

/wEs?kIt/

Nicole