"Clique": kleek? klick? breeches

[Wilson Gray]

On 1/4/06, sagehen <sagehen at westelcom.com> wrote:
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> Subject:      Re: "Clique": kleek? klick? breeches
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> >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
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> Definitely, "britches."  [Similarly, "vittles", spelled _victuals_.]
> AM
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Amen, AM! Would that we could recover "inwards," the proper spelling of
"innards."

-Wilson