why call it "The Kilt"?

[EldarKinSlayer]

*snip*

"Would you like the fries with that?"

I see you graduated from A&M!!!!!


Sorry family joke, my Aunt's husband, wonderful fellow a Professor of Architecture, was an Aggie.

[jgcunningham]

Talking of Gaelic accents brings back memories of working a Whitesnake concert as local auditorium crew in Lubbock, Texas. Their crew was equal parts Scottish, Irish, Liverpudlian, Londoners, and Aussies. We had to have an interpreter so that us Texans could understand what was being asked by some of them.

"Gih tha spee'er o'er therr an puh hit o'er therr. Roon th' caybull oop th' troos an tye i' hoff. Thin ye ploog i' hinta th' jack in th' back. Royight? Royight!"

Translation: Get that speaker over there and put it over there. Run the cable up the truss and tie it off. Then you plug it in the jack in the back. Right? Right!

Equal frustration levels on both sides that we could barely understand them and they were having to repeat everything, usually louder and slower.

[Lallans]

As a birder (currently on hiatus), I've met a number of twitchers from various parts of the British Isles, typically from small island communities I think, that beyond a couple of words could in no way be understood by me or any North American present. And I say this as a person who has spent a heck of a lot of time around Brits of all descriptions.

[Jordan]

Equal frustration levels on both sides that we could barely understand them and they were having to repeat everything, usually louder and slower.

Ah the typical brittish way of communicating with foreigners

[Tobus]

I see you graduated from A&M!!!!!


Sorry family joke, my Aunt's husband, wonderful fellow a Professor of Architecture, was an Aggie.

Oh, OUCH!!!

(Yes I did graduate from Texas A&M, and ironically that was the date I swore to myself I'd never work another job where I had to say "would you like fries with that?")

[kc8ufv]

Ah the typical brittish way of communicating with foreigners

Though different dialect, it's generally the American way, as far as I have seen.

[Slowburn]

With out reading every post here "The Kilt" is a part of Gaelic culture and to refer to it as "a kilt" is to Anglify it So "The Kilt" is resisting that effort, the last vestige of Resistance to the English.

[Macman]

I see saying "I wear the kilt" as similar to "I play the piano". I guess I've never really thought twice about it.

[Kilt-alope]

that last one does explain a lot to me.