The Ink-Pot and the Palette

That's interesting. I've known people who grew up just on the other side of the mountains from here, and though I think it would take a serious linguist to hear differences in most of our pronunciations, there were whole swaths of expressions from over the mountains that I'd never heard in my life. The one that I remember best is "slicker 'n snot" to describe an icy road.

Your pronunciation of waistcoat makes me realize that yes, I probably really have heard it pronounced "weskit" (in fact, I think I've seen it written that way!), and wasn't just making that up in my head.