An African-American television hostess talked about how when she was a girl, her grandma used to put her hair in plaits. She pronounced plaits as PLATES. I kept trying to figure out what PLATES were. Then, another hostess spelled the word plaits, and I got it. People where I am from pronounce plaits as PLATS. For those of you who do not know what plaits are, they are hair braids. Often, when African-American girls get to a certain age, they no longer want to wear their hair in plaits. They want to wear it loose, or they want it styled in some way: relaxer, wash and blow dry, press and curl, Afro, etc.
The dictionary gives both pronunciations for hair braids, but I like PLATS better. It is what I am used to saying.
Smiles,
Sylvia
me too
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