How do you pronounce Breeches???

[goodhors]

[QUOTE=Foxtrot’s;7393430
Breeches is a bum strap on a driving harness./QUOTE]

Technically, the term is Breeching, because it is only one strap. Never have heard it called breeches by any Driving folks. Must be a local thing again.

My vocabulary is expanding with this discussion!

I now will know what breeches are when heard in relation to a harnessed driving animal. I knew breeching on the harness, though the rump strap has also been referred to as britching, britchin, by various folks who drive or use pack animals, ride mules.

[LesleyW]

[QUOTE=Sargentmajor;7392726]
I haven’t heard anyone use the terminology I grew up with. It was neither britches or breeeches, it was pronounced breeeks. I still call them that.[/QUOTE]

I’ve only ever used “breeks” as well. Course, we are in the colonies.

[shadytrake]

Riding pants. It’s just easier.

[The_Equestrian_Vagab]

if you’re hanging out up the creek (“crick”) here in Idaho, I reckon you’d call 'em “britches”. When you return back to civilization, you can go back to “breeches” and nobody will ever know.

[SnicklefritzG]

I’ve always said “breeches”. To me “britches” is an old fashioned word for underpants.

[pandorasboxx]

Breeches. Britches are what my NC country grandmother called pants.
Crupper-crouper sounds like an illness.
Jodpur though when I say it fast sounds like jodfur.

[Lilykoi]

Crupper like supper
Britches
Jodhpurs: jodpurs
But I’m old school 'cause I’m old

[Sargentmajor]

Now this has me all curious as to whether or not the pronunciation is regional so I went on FB nod conducted a poll as to what people in my area call their riding pants. Interesting as most people said breeks. Must be a northern Alberta thing?

[Golden_Pony]

Britches are what adults wear, jod-pers are what kids wear (until they are 12 and then they can wear britches and tall boots).

And another for the mix - it was never a helmet, but a hat.

[trubandloki]

[QUOTE=Golden Pony;7396871]
it was never a helmet, but a hat.[/QUOTE]
Hat is the old style thing that comes with the big orange sticker that says it provides no protection. A helmet is… a helmet.

[KayBee]

re: “hat” vs “helmet”

Possibly unique to me but occasionally I think I say “riding hat” (never just “hat”) but primarily say “helmet.”

But I started riding late and previously wore helmets for other sports (biking/snowboarding), so that may be why, rather than any local, er, nomenclature.

[dreamingofdressage]

Breeeeeeeches

[Pipkin]

Weird, round here it is always a hat and NEVER a helmet!

lol So it’s a 50/50 kinda thing on the breeches front. I might go with breeches, just because that’s how it’s spelled, but will report back on the responses I get :lol:

And crupper - to rhyme with supper, though it’s for the croup so maybe it should be crou-per. Who knows!

[Love2RideTori]

It’s all good!

I think both are acceptable and known, but I think britches is more correct based on my pronunciation research. I found a YouTube link that pronounced it both ways (britches or breeches). I could not copy the link on my iPad - sorry! I heard britches out west and both back east.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/breeches

http://www.macmillandictionary.com/us/pronunciation/british/breeches

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/pronunciation/british/breeches#

[Loopy]

Breeeches
Crupper - like supper
jodpurrs
hooof
and I wear a hat.

[smay]

Wow, so people really call little kid riding pants: JOD PERS? Wow that sounds really weird. Never heard them called anything but jod-FERS.

[Loopy]

I’ve never in my life heard them called jodfers

[sascha]

godhors - shaves is the ye olde plural of shaft. Just like the plural of leaf is leaves, thief is thieves, etc.

[xeroxchick]

Britches.

[goodhors]

Thanks Sascha, that makes sense. Have added singular, shaft, and plural, shaves, for the entire set used with the single horse.

Jodpurs are used in Saddle Seat riding, for Adults and children. The legs are long, flared a bit to cover the boot tops and come down to the ground, then fastened under the short boots for riding. Makes a long smooth line-of-leg for the rider in the saddle.

Jodpurs used to be quite common attire for Adults riding but not jumping. Look at some of the old story books, I think Billy and Blaze series had adults riding with short boots and jodhpurs in the pictures. My own Aunts rode with jodhpurs and short boots in the 1940s and 50s, we have a bunch of old pictures of them. Saddle was a plain panel English model, flaps straight down, but not a Saddle Seat model. No knee rolls or panels on it. Was the common “Pleasure Riding Saddle” back then, because my Aunts rode TBs down the road, thru the farm country, no fancy horses.