Thread: How do Americans feel about UK spelling?
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Old 09-08-2010, 01:46 PM   #37
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Originally Posted by ardeegee View Post
Okay, what do the British call "suspenders"-- "galluses"? That is the term my grandmother (who just turned 90) uses for them.
Never heard of 'galluses'; possibly a dialect word from somewhere I've never lived.

The common word for them is 'braces'.
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