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Re: Spelling pronunciations (was: rhotic miscellany)

From:Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
Date:Sunday, November 7, 2004, 18:54
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