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If I say the word "housecoat", do you know what I mean?

( What it brings to mind for me )

I was writing something that used the word today, and realized that I almost never see it written down - neither in fiction nor in commercial context. Starting to think it might be another regionalism that I didn't realise was a regionalism.

(A quick search as I write this confirms it probably is a regionalism. There we go.)

Sometimes I do wonder if the regional vocabulary in the stuff I write gets people confused, but... well, I very rarely write characters who would actually be speaking English, so it doesn't really matter which form of English I use. Best to just do whatever pleases me and make the narration aggressively Canadian.