June's OT Board Dictionary Launched (was Brittspeak)

[junediamanti]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Beth" <jillily3g at y...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Tim Regan" 
> <tim_regan82 at h...> wrote:
> > So what do American women call what we call suspenders – i.e. 
the 
> > things that hold up ladies stockings?
> > 
> 
> Garter? Garter belt? 
> So are what we call suspenders -- the things to hold men's pants 
up -
> - braces or is there another name?
> 
> Beth, whose only pre-HP experience with Brittspeak was her 
> mother's "bodice busters"

Sock suspenders.  And the very thought of them makes me giggle.

We had a famous comedy duo called Morcambe and Wise.  Part of their 
show was to do a very silly and very funny adaptation of some 
classic play.  In it, Eric Morecambe used to regularly show up in 
costume - and sock suspenders.  Even in a version of Cleopatra.

June