A common language (was: bifurcated leg coverings)

Jim Healy

Sept. 2, 2001, 6:18 p.m. (Message 27162)

Marilynn Latta Knight asks:

>OK, Bryan, I'll bite!...
>what are 'galluses'?

It's the Scots for what Americans call suspenders which word the Scots (and 
English) reserve for what ladies use to hold up stockings. The English 
English for galluses is braces.

To misquote Churchill - three nations divided by a common language (and that 
doesn't include Australia - yet :)

Jim Healy
Perth, Scotland

RuddBaron

Sept. 2, 2001, 6:58 p.m. (Message 27164, in reply to message 27162)

In a message dated 9/2/01 11:19:16 AM Central Daylight Time, 
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxx.xxx writes:

<< To misquote Churchill - three nations divided by a common language (and 
that 
 doesn't include Australia - yet :) >>

--- And then there is Wales... :)

SallenNic

Sept. 3, 2001, 12:26 p.m. (Message 27174, in reply to message 27162)

I've always understood that quotation was from Bernard Shaw, not Churchill?
                                            Nicolas B., Lanark, Scotland.