At 08:05 AM 5/12/04 -0500, Mary Robi wrote: >. . . Oh, and those really skinny "ones" I think of as plaits. Me, > too Tamara - playts. Is that a Yankee thing?
It's a learned-out-of-a-book thing. I have two terms in my vocabulary: My father* sometimes said my hair was "platted", but I was full-grown before I found out how it was spelled, and read "plait" as "playt". Which sounds as though I was putting on an Irish accent. "Plait" and "pleat" used to be the same word. (*Mother, who was eleven years younger, always said "braid".) -- Joy Beeson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/ http://home.earthlink.net/~beeson_n3f/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where it's a bright and sunny spring day - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
