There's a couple movements in krav that I'd describe using the term "teeter totter" but I had to stop because everyone got so distracted by all the "t" sounds in it. So now I say "seesaw."

I worked with this guy Torquil who is A) from an English family, B) A trained actor, and who now is in the band Stars. Whenever I listen to their music I am always struck by all his clearly annunciated Ts.

It could be that I'm alone in this, though.

No, you are not.

Fowler:
"For the pa.t. and pa.pple both dream and dreamed are used; dreamed is usually pronounced [/dreemed/] and dreamt /dremt/. Dreamed, esp. as a pa.t. form, tends to be used for emphasis and poetry. No decisive evidence has been established about the distribution of the two forms, but dreamt appears to be somewhat more common in BrE than in AmE."

Actually, it sounds like I'm using it the opposite way--"dreamed" is my literal word, "dreamt" is when I'm being more poetic.

I just meant (meaned?) that it seems that distribution isn't geographic, context can affect which one you choose.

Hec's said that before, and the only thing I can think of is the story of Belle Tarkington and rescuing Mrs. Brace-Gideon's cats.

Hmmm, maybe I'm confusing it with Return to Drag King Lake.

Ah, got it. Language is so fascinating, IMO--it'd be boring if we all spoke our English the same way!

it'd be boring if we all spoke our English the same way!

But if we had to, I highly recommend my way. Which is with the -t past tenses as often as possible.

I also encourage the use of et as the past tense of to eat.

So the word "breeches" as in riding or knee - long "e" or short "i" - I've always used the latter but I find my midwestern friends prefer the former.

there's breetches and then there's britches

right?

In my experience people pronounce the garment one way or the other.

(For me "breech" long "e" means something like "rear" or "backwards" as in "breech birth".)