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in reply to a message by queenv
I'll grant you most people in the UK would say la bor uh tree and sek ruh tree (or sometimes sek uh tree) but I've never heard anyone here pronounce waistcoat as anything other than waist+coat - in fact I'm not even sure how else you could pronounce it!
Also: not everyone here pronounces their 't's. Londoners and most Southerners pronounce matter more like ma'uh.
Also: not everyone here pronounces their 't's. Londoners and most Southerners pronounce matter more like ma'uh.
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Well, there you go! Proves my point. But I thought that some British, at least, pronounce waistcoat as "weskit." Not that there's much call to use that word these days, anyway.
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My dad sometimes says "weskit". It is an old pronunciation and I think he just says it because it's more interesting but everyone else I know says waistcoat. I think I'm right in saying American's call them vests?
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Actually, yes, we do call them vests. To be honest, I've never in my life heard anyone say the word "waistcoat", British or American. Somewhere, somehow, I read that the British say "weskit", while Americans would say "waistcoat" and that's why I used it as an example.
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