"Clique": kleek? klick? breeches

[Laurence Horn]

At 6:10 PM -0500 1/4/06, sagehen wrote:
>  >How about 'breeches"?  This was an active part of my vocabulary growing
>>up, not some word I learned thru reading.  For my family, it was always
>>'britches.'  Whenever I hear someone say 'breeches' I think that person
>>doesn't know the word except thru reading (It also sounds way toooo long.)
>>Fritz J
>  ~~~~~~~~~~~~
>Definitely, "britches."  [Similarly, "vittles", spelled _victuals_.]
>AM

unless we're talking about the overweight obstetrician who got to be
too big for his breeches

LH