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[Alan H]

90% of people know it's a kilt, but they say "skirt" because they're a bit nonplussed and trying to pass it off with humour. That's fine the first time. In fct with me it's rine the second or third time.

When it gets to be,s ay fifteen or twenty times, my patience wears thin. I ripped one guy in my sailing society a new anatomical opening when, after seeing me in a kilt well over 20 times and after gettng warning looks and warning comments from his wife, he just would NOT stop using the word "skirt". I like the guy and I've known him for years, but there are limits to the length which you can push a stale joke.

Now he doesn't speak of my kilts at ALL..... too bad.

[Abax]

Like Alan, I don't care if people call my kilt a skirt once or twice. They're nervous and feeling a little inadequate in the presence of a confident kilt-wearing man, so they make a mistake in calling it a skirt.

I usually ask repeat offenders to make a choice. "People who call a kilt a skirt are usually either ignorant or insulting. Which are you?" If they actually come up with an answer - which is rare - you can either educate them or ask them to explain why the feel the need to be insulting. I've never had a conversation go beyond that point.

Abax

[emolas]

Like Alan, I don't care if people call my kilt a skirt once or twice. They're nervous and feeling a little inadequate in the presence of a confident kilt-wearing man, so they make a mistake in calling it a skirt.

I usually ask repeat offenders to make a choice. "People who call a kilt a skirt are usually either ignorant or insulting. Which are you?" If they actually come up with an answer - which is rare - you can either educate them or ask them to explain why the feel the need to be insulting. I've never had a conversation go beyond that point.

Abax

I like that response. Consider it plagiarized by me