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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.
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