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We ALWAYS say go down cellar. I'm from a community of German
immigrants who settled in Ontario. I still say that myself. My partner is from Prince Edward Island where "go down to the basement" is in use. Here's another one--what's that big soft thing you sit on in the living room? To us it's a couch, but my grandmother calls it "a chesterfield." --Fil |
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We ALWAYS say go down cellar. I'm from a community of German
immigrants who settled in Ontario. I still say that myself. My partner is from Prince Edward Island where "go down to the basement" is in use. Here's another one--what's that big soft thing you sit on in the living room? To us it's a couch, but my grandmother calls it "a chesterfield." --Fil |
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On 22 Oct 2004 15:31:21 -0700,
(Enfilade) wrote: We ALWAYS say go down cellar. I'm from a community of German immigrants who settled in Ontario. I still say that myself. I don't know about "go down the cellar", but in southern New Jersey people "go down the shore" instead of "go to the beach" My partner is from Prince Edward Island where "go down to the basement" is in use. Here's another one--what's that big soft thing you sit on in the living room? To us it's a couch, but my grandmother calls it "a chesterfield." My US Midwest (central Indiana) grandmother called it a "davenport", while my other grandmother, also from the US Midwest (western Iowa), called it a "couch". Jeanne Hedge, as directed by Natasha ============ http://www.jhedge.com |
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On 22 Oct 2004 15:31:21 -0700,
(Enfilade) wrote: We ALWAYS say go down cellar. I'm from a community of German immigrants who settled in Ontario. I still say that myself. I don't know about "go down the cellar", but in southern New Jersey people "go down the shore" instead of "go to the beach" My partner is from Prince Edward Island where "go down to the basement" is in use. Here's another one--what's that big soft thing you sit on in the living room? To us it's a couch, but my grandmother calls it "a chesterfield." My US Midwest (central Indiana) grandmother called it a "davenport", while my other grandmother, also from the US Midwest (western Iowa), called it a "couch". Jeanne Hedge, as directed by Natasha ============ http://www.jhedge.com |
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Here's another one--what's that big soft thing you sit on in the
living room? To us it's a couch, but my grandmother calls it "a chesterfield." --Fil Cool, my grandmother had a chesterfield sofa, they are the big, elegant looking sofas with the back and sides sort of rounding out together. I'd not heard that in like forever! Mike The early bird gets the worm; but the 2nd mouse gets the cheese!! |
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Here's another one--what's that big soft thing you sit on in the
living room? To us it's a couch, but my grandmother calls it "a chesterfield." --Fil Cool, my grandmother had a chesterfield sofa, they are the big, elegant looking sofas with the back and sides sort of rounding out together. I'd not heard that in like forever! Mike The early bird gets the worm; but the 2nd mouse gets the cheese!! |
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Here's another one--what's that big soft thing you sit on in the
living room? To us it's a couch, but my grandmother calls it "a chesterfield." --Fil Cool, my grandmother had a chesterfield sofa, they are the big, elegant looking sofas with the back and sides sort of rounding out together. I'd not heard that in like forever! Mike The early bird gets the worm; but the 2nd mouse gets the cheese!! |
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"Yowie" wrote in message
... wrote in message ... I'd like to pause for just a moment, to have a tangential linguistic discussion. Singh wrote: Just to be on the safe side, Louie rigged up the dresser so she can't get beneath it now. So at least if she does go down cellar, we have some idea of how and where to find her. Oh, *WOW*!! I haven't heard the phrase "go down cellar" for years! (It means "go down to the basement", for the uninitiated.) But that's how my mother always said it. I just had a childhood flashback! I'm from Boston. My parents are from Boston. All of their parents were born in Boston, too. So I'm thinking maybe "down cellar" is a Boston-ism. Or maybe a New England-ism? I always find it weird to hear the American term "I'll write you" rather than saying "I'll write *to* you". I don't know when the dropped "to" or the "to the" in your case above first started to be thought of as correct grammar in American English, but to these Commonweatlth English ears, it always sounds wrong. But being quite ancient in terms of cuber-life, I've learnt that even "English" has distinct sub-languages, and no one particular dialect is any more "correct" than any other - just that some are "older". Ye Olde Yowieth Just as I find it strange that British and Australians say someone is "in hospital", rather than "in *the* hospital". English is, indeed, a strange language, and the various ways it is spoken make it even stranger. Joy |
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"Yowie" wrote in message
... wrote in message ... I'd like to pause for just a moment, to have a tangential linguistic discussion. Singh wrote: Just to be on the safe side, Louie rigged up the dresser so she can't get beneath it now. So at least if she does go down cellar, we have some idea of how and where to find her. Oh, *WOW*!! I haven't heard the phrase "go down cellar" for years! (It means "go down to the basement", for the uninitiated.) But that's how my mother always said it. I just had a childhood flashback! I'm from Boston. My parents are from Boston. All of their parents were born in Boston, too. So I'm thinking maybe "down cellar" is a Boston-ism. Or maybe a New England-ism? I always find it weird to hear the American term "I'll write you" rather than saying "I'll write *to* you". I don't know when the dropped "to" or the "to the" in your case above first started to be thought of as correct grammar in American English, but to these Commonweatlth English ears, it always sounds wrong. But being quite ancient in terms of cuber-life, I've learnt that even "English" has distinct sub-languages, and no one particular dialect is any more "correct" than any other - just that some are "older". Ye Olde Yowieth Just as I find it strange that British and Australians say someone is "in hospital", rather than "in *the* hospital". English is, indeed, a strange language, and the various ways it is spoken make it even stranger. Joy |
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