Re: Spelling pronunciations (was: rhotic miscellany)

On Nov 7, 2004, at 8:02 PM, Ray Brown wrote:
> I've been talking all the time about 'British waistcoats', which you
> LeftPondians quaintly call 'vests'. The were once (and hopefully still
> are)
>  called 'weskits'. Over here, as I guess you know, 'vest' always means
> what you call an 'undervest'
>
Undershirt. :-)


-Stephen (Steg)
  "Enthrone your pasts:
    this done, fire and old blood
    will find you again:
   better hearts' breaking
   than worlds'."
  "Dethrone the past:
    this done, day comes up new
    though empty-hearted:
   O the long silence,
   my son!"
      ~ from _the romulan way_ by diane duane & peter morwood