"basket house"

[Wilson Gray]

On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Ben Zimmer
<bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
> the odd Briticism "overshoes"

that's even in BE and, perhaps, other forms of Southern English. But,
pf course, the headline-writer ought to have used standard _rubbers_.
Not everyone is familiar with regional and other non-standard terms:

_Trying the Economic Rubbers on Different Feet_

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