Wow...made it to the end! Personally I think the english language is a mess, that is why it is so hard to learn. Our letter groupings sound different in different words, through, rough, bough, and the definitions change. Words have meanings now, that may be different tomorrow. pleat and tartan used to mean different things than they do now. I personally think the big problem with the word "skirt" is it's slang term for a woman/girl.

I am glad everyone enjoys their dictionary but I lost faith in it when I heard the word Nuculear was going in as "a mispronuciation of Nuclear". For me it's just a name, just a word. call it a skirt, a kilt, a love curtain, a penis tent, does it really matter? if the term skirt became accepted as non-sexual *** holes would start calling them dresses...and so on. It is interesting to hear peoples thoughts. I have had it called a skirt, even as a dig and I just say "thanks". The only bad reaction I had was when someone asked why I was wearing a girls dress, I said it was a kilt, or a man-skirt, and I wear because it's comfortable and I could only feel sorry for him that he and his equipment fit well into trousers, me and mine don't. He shut up

Cheers