Re: some more Irish vowels

ranjit_mathews@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Though no one uses "aglet" except in
crosswords.

It is, although to a more limited extent than dais and rostrum, used in
some (but far from all) dialects of high register Indian English as in
"I dashed off to the haberdasher's to buy an aglet".

When it occurs in word games, the definition is generally 'the plastic
tip on the end of a shoelace', though I see from the 11th Collegiate
that it has a somewhat wider denotation, but nothing in the definition
suggests that anyone would buy an aglet but a tailor (or seamster).

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