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HelpRe: OT: accents
in reply to a message by Pie
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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