So is it pronounced like a makeshift bed you lay your tired a$$ in after a hard days work... "A$$ - COT" ???

Or is it pronounced like something you get when you lay an over-sized turd.... "A$$ - CUT" ???

To-MAY-toe or to-MAH-toe?

Stam? Salmo?

its A$$ COT... and they are ugly as sin, i dont recomend wearing one...

This is an important question. We American slobs say a$$ cot, but a proper, English ascoteer might very well pronounce it a$$ cut, especially when speaking in haste.

Paying attention to such subtleties will assure Mr. eyeFISH, Esq. a lengthy, prominent stay amongst the Order. Good show, Sir!

You don't like my Ascot? Say it to my face!

eyeFISH,

You must be getting really bored for entertainment. I really don't know and haven't cared enough to look it up. I'll leave it to Stam, since he's the self-proclaimed purveyor of the ascot label on this forum. I should probably care more about icons of elitism, but in at least this case I don't. What I do care about is the most appropriate material for a flask for an 8-day float trip. Nalgene probably wouldn't break or leak, but will it affect the taste of decent Scotch?

Sg

Also, is it then mandatory to extend the pinky when drinking scotch from a nalgene bottle?

"flask for an 8-day float trip."

Half gallon bottles are referred to as flasks hey? That's a bit snobish.

Not possible, except for the elitist snob part. That Stamster is all talk and no walk. I've never seen said ascot. I think he's keeping them all to himself in his closet, as in closet ascoteer.

Further, since Bourbon is the product of Kentucky, which is within the native range of bass, methinks Bourbon is the drink of choice of bass bubbas, hither and yon. Scotch, being the product of Scotland, home of salmon rivers and sea trout, is the natural and logical drink of choice among salmon and trout anglers. And the referenced float trip having trout as the target species, it would be embarrassingly inappropriate to pack Bourbon for the trip. And you know I'm all about proper behavior.

Which is worth exactly what? I suppose that and a dollar-three-eighty-five will get me a decent cup of coffee?

Tell me he doesn't wear an ascot.

Almost a zing. Try again; I know you can do it!

Oh.............you got Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzing'ed, my friend.

I already decided.

Lots of phonetic asz cutters here

Well I found a definitive source... the ones supporting anal fissures got it right.

http://www.macmillandictionary.com/pronunciation/british/Ascot

http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/dictionary/royal-ascot

I should say that various of the wordplays one may give in to the temptation to make on Ascot actually don’t work if you pronounce it the British way. The cot, you see, is reduced entirely (somewhat like the base of a fascinator), making Ascot sound rather like ask it and go nicely with waistcoat (“weskit”). So it’s a tisket, a tasket, a basket worn at Ascot; the lid of it hangs before her bangs, and her head looks like a casket. (How does it stay on? Perhaps with an elastic.) The word comes from east cot, “east cottage”. It is, as it looks, an English word of thoroughbred pedigree.

Seenin' as how I'm just a beer swillin' country singin' red-necked Ornamental who drags dead fish and bounces big globs of fish guts to catch most my salmon, I am not worthy of the Order.

you keep swingin that 14 foot limber stick around whats got a hunerd foot a skinny rope with a hand ful a fethers on ahook tied to it Its only a madder a time till someone gets der asscut

BTW, it seems anything beyond a junior high vocabulary is ascot territory around here.

Keerist this has become so inane that even KK weighed in.

As has Illy . . . ; what's the world coming to?

I was a college boy.

I've been around people way more eductaed than I am.

And I have NEVER heard ANYONE say "hither and yon".

Never.

Extra large Ascots make good bibs.