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#3284 09/05/01 04:09 PM
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we covered (or uncovered!) clothing before..
weskit-- (and various other spelling..) =waist coat which could =vest as in a three peice suit.

but vest is also used for a men's undershirt.. not the t- shirt kind, but the kind for want of better description, sort of looks like a woman's camisole. (sleeve-less undershirt)

for me, vest 1. is sleeve-less garment, worn by men and women, over a shirt. 2. a sleeveless undershirt for a man.

and weskit and waist-coat--are ornate vests, (1.) either with collars, ruffles, or hip lenght..

i never use singlet (or doublet!) it sound archaic to my ears!

ink horns= ink bottles.. i have some pens that i fill from an ink bottle, and few pens that i dip into an ink bottte to use. my every day fountain pens tend to use cartridges.. (purple ink,at the present) or are pilot disposable fountain pens.
bottled ink is india (black)--a pint size bottle, half used, and a small bottle, (2 oz.?) in what used to be called peacock blue, but is now called "de mar" --sea blue.


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Singlet is still the common term for that little all-in-one number that Greco-Roman wrestlers wear...

Oh yeah, and I pronounce the t in often. That confused all of my students when I was teaching English in Korea ~ they had never heard it that way.

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Dear Jmh: In your post of over a year ago, you said currently "scone" rhymes with "upon". If that is the case, how is the "Stone of Scone" pronounced? (see URL below)

http://members.aol.com/Skyelander/stone.html



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Dear Max: The Scun of Stun is a very significant historical object. Or is the the Scon of Ston?


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Bill, that is a very good question. I will seek out a real Scot and get you an answer (or three).

For me it would be scone to rhyme with the standard pronunciation of stone (is there another?)


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My impression is that 'offen' is standard in Australia.

As Lucy noted, 'offten' seems to lay in the realm of the older folk (say +70's...) here.

stales


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Thank goodness I can say nuclear!

How about aluminium and realtor? My ex-father-in-law always came up with something like, "The reelator tried to sell me a house with aloonyum siding."


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I've been thinking about how I pronounce it and realize that if it's just another word in a sentence, I omit the 't'; but if there is any emphasis on it, I pronounce the 't'. I tend to think I have heard other people doing this. I don't see one as more correct than the other.


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