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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread getting dressed for ... #145146 07/17/2005 3:30 PM Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park of troy Carpal Tunnel of troy Carpal Tunnel Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park Vest is such an interesting word. from the root of "to wear" it can be real clothing, (a vest)or a figurative 'clothing' (with the power vested in me..) or you can be vested (in a pension plan) which just means your are invested (but you also get invested with power!) you divest, or invest, be vested, or wear a vest.. (but if you are invested with spiritual power, (ie, a preist or minister) you don't get devested, you get defrocked! (so you get vested, but your vest is a frock.) and i am sure vest has other nuances.. (like vestment, and investment) my other obsession Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: getting dressed for ... #145147 07/17/2005 3:37 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont and waistcost, no? (weskit?) http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=vest formerly known as etaoin... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: getting dressed for ... #145148 07/17/2005 3:54 PM Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park of troy Carpal Tunnel of troy Carpal Tunnel Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park Oh yes, weskit/waistcoat is a fun word. there are some (in a small green part of the world) that mangle and misprononce words so effectively, that poor american visitors to their land thought there was a new name for a waistcoat. and so WESKIT came into being.. WESKIT is how Waistcoat was commonly said. its a sonic error. (sonic errors abound--like: Baited breath taken for granite hare's breath... we could do a whole thread on sonic errors!) Synjon is another (you know, its how you say the name, (not a very popular one i'll admit, but found in literature) St.John. (Jane Eyre has an important character named St.John.) my other obsession Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: getting dressed for ... #145149 07/17/2005 4:34 PM Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park of troy Carpal Tunnel of troy Carpal Tunnel Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park Dr bill had this to say about weskits: had an amusing experience the first time I took ferry from Cape Tormentine to Borden on PEI. There was a safety poster in French, about 'gilets de sauvettage'. With my best high-school French, I asked the purser who looked French:'Qu'est que c'est un gilet de sauvettage?' He snarled at me:'I don't speak French!' And shut his door before I could ask again in English. As I walked away, I suddenly had vision of an illustration in a French language version of Alice in Wonderland, with the White Rabbit wearing a bright red weskit. Suddenly it dawned on me: Weskit in French is 'gilet'. So 'gilets de sauvettage' were life jackets. so anyone--is the word gilet related to the PIE(that's proto indo european, not PEI(Prince Edward Island--reputed to be the prettiest place on earth) word for clothing (to wear clothing?) my other obsession Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: getting dressed for ... #145150 07/17/2005 4:47 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont here's what the Oxford had to say about gilet: gilet /jilay/ • noun (pl. gilets pronunc. same) a light sleeveless padded jacket. — ORIGIN French, ‘waistcoat’, from Turkish. http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/gilet?view=uk formerly known as etaoin... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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