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Subject: Re: "a Pair of Panties" ?????
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Le 02/07/2024 à 06:31, Hibou a écrit :
> Le 01/07/2024 à 12:38, occam a écrit :
>> On 01/07/2024 07:56, Hibou wrote:
>>>
>>> I observe that the kilt is singular - two legs, but only one hole.
>>
>> While in Aberdeen, the question arose: "what's the difference between a
>> kilt and a skirt? What do Scottish women wear?"
>>
>> The wittiest answer I got was that Scotsmen call it a 'kilt' to avoid
>> the embarrassment of having to admit that they are wearing a skirt.
> 
> That may well be true; certainly one encounters considerable resistance 
> among Scots, both men and women, if one calls a kilt a skirt. This, I 
> think, is just a matter of time and place. At other times and places, it 
> has been and is normal for men to wear skirts - Roman legionnaires did, 
> for instance.
> 
> According to the OED, the noun 'kilt' (~1746...) comes from the verb 'to 
> kilt' (~1340...), at first meaning to tuck (skirts etc.) up round the 
> body, and later also to gather in vertical pleats....
> 
> "I'll kilt my coats aboon my knee, And follow my love thro' the water" - 
> Burns, 1788.
> 
> I have heard a tale of Scots soldiers in the First World War, of water 
> freezing on the hems of their kilts and chafing their legs raw. Just the 
> thought makes one wince.

Esprit d'escalier : it must've been tough to have to endure chafing on 
top of chaffing.