Re: Spelling pronunciations (was: rhotic miscellany)
| From: | Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, November 8, 2004, 19:20 |
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On Sunday, November 7, 2004, at 09:51 , Ph. D. wrote:
> Ray Brown wrote:
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>> 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'
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> I've never heard the term "undervest" in the United
> States. Perhaps this is what we call an "undershirt"?
OOPS! I guess it is.
I think I was misled by:
British _pants_ = American _underpants_
So British _vest_ is the American _undershirt_? Sort of logical, I guess -
except that over here there are some guys who, when the weathers warmer,
don't wear the vest/undershirt under anything :)
Who was it said the UK and the USA are two nations divided by the same
language?
Ray
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