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On 2004-10-23, Sherry wrote:
Here, a basement (hardly anyone has one)...is the room under your house. A cellar is a tornado shelter, which is completley separate from the house. Also called a "scare-hole." Cellars also come in fruit, root and coal. The fruit is in jars on shelves. The roots are mounded up in straw. The coal is loose. You have cellar doors that slope. Some old words have disappeared, such as ash can, because noone burns coal any more to make ashes to be hauled away. American English is different owing to many years of separation and influences from the languages of the other settlers of the New World, the Indians who were here first, and the African slaves. Thus we kept the definite article in phrases like "in the hospital" and lost the initial "h" in "herb". Old timers would say "yarbs", I guess from the Spanish "la yerba", but that has died out. "Yarb" might have come in with the Mexican War. It always meant medicinal plants such as wild ginseng and not garden herbs. |
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On 2004-10-23, Sherry wrote:
Here, a basement (hardly anyone has one)...is the room under your house. A cellar is a tornado shelter, which is completley separate from the house. Also called a "scare-hole." Cellars also come in fruit, root and coal. The fruit is in jars on shelves. The roots are mounded up in straw. The coal is loose. You have cellar doors that slope. Some old words have disappeared, such as ash can, because noone burns coal any more to make ashes to be hauled away. American English is different owing to many years of separation and influences from the languages of the other settlers of the New World, the Indians who were here first, and the African slaves. Thus we kept the definite article in phrases like "in the hospital" and lost the initial "h" in "herb". Old timers would say "yarbs", I guess from the Spanish "la yerba", but that has died out. "Yarb" might have come in with the Mexican War. It always meant medicinal plants such as wild ginseng and not garden herbs. |
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On 2004-10-23, Sherry wrote:
Here, a basement (hardly anyone has one)...is the room under your house. A cellar is a tornado shelter, which is completley separate from the house. Also called a "scare-hole." Cellars also come in fruit, root and coal. The fruit is in jars on shelves. The roots are mounded up in straw. The coal is loose. You have cellar doors that slope. Some old words have disappeared, such as ash can, because noone burns coal any more to make ashes to be hauled away. American English is different owing to many years of separation and influences from the languages of the other settlers of the New World, the Indians who were here first, and the African slaves. Thus we kept the definite article in phrases like "in the hospital" and lost the initial "h" in "herb". Old timers would say "yarbs", I guess from the Spanish "la yerba", but that has died out. "Yarb" might have come in with the Mexican War. It always meant medicinal plants such as wild ginseng and not garden herbs. |
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"William Hamblen" wrote in message ... Some old words have disappeared, such as ash can, because noone burns coal any more to make ashes to be hauled away. I also grew up going "down cellar", and I took ashes out in an ash can and put them in an ash pit. These weren't coal ashes, but wood ash. I sat on a sofa, and drank soda. I grew up in the Adirondack Mtns of New York, near the Canadian border. G One saying that I use that seems to be a local one is "That person is a rig!" , meaning that person likes to be the center of attention, good or bad. My oldest sister is a 'rig', and she is constantly in the middle of a problem, either of her own creation or of someone elses. She just thrives on it! I also work with someone like that. Sigh. G Patti (in central New York, where it is getting colder every day!) |
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"William Hamblen" wrote in message ... Some old words have disappeared, such as ash can, because noone burns coal any more to make ashes to be hauled away. I also grew up going "down cellar", and I took ashes out in an ash can and put them in an ash pit. These weren't coal ashes, but wood ash. I sat on a sofa, and drank soda. I grew up in the Adirondack Mtns of New York, near the Canadian border. G One saying that I use that seems to be a local one is "That person is a rig!" , meaning that person likes to be the center of attention, good or bad. My oldest sister is a 'rig', and she is constantly in the middle of a problem, either of her own creation or of someone elses. She just thrives on it! I also work with someone like that. Sigh. G Patti (in central New York, where it is getting colder every day!) |
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"William Hamblen" wrote in message ... Some old words have disappeared, such as ash can, because noone burns coal any more to make ashes to be hauled away. I also grew up going "down cellar", and I took ashes out in an ash can and put them in an ash pit. These weren't coal ashes, but wood ash. I sat on a sofa, and drank soda. I grew up in the Adirondack Mtns of New York, near the Canadian border. G One saying that I use that seems to be a local one is "That person is a rig!" , meaning that person likes to be the center of attention, good or bad. My oldest sister is a 'rig', and she is constantly in the middle of a problem, either of her own creation or of someone elses. She just thrives on it! I also work with someone like that. Sigh. G Patti (in central New York, where it is getting colder every day!) |
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Someone from
the UK flamed me good one time for using the word "dander Now, what's wrong with that word? Is it another word, like f*nny, that doesn't mean anything bad over here but does over there? You know, to this day I don't know. I kind of suspect he just didn't know what the word meant. snipped. There was a horrid creature from the UK that used to be on the cat groups who called me "harpic." I'd never heard that one either! That's a new one. I assume it means "harpie-like"? Nice. LOL, no. IIRC, I was told that it was a toilet bowl cleaner, and there was a TV commercial or something that said it "Cleans 'round the bend." Thus, "harpic" was supposed mean somebody who was " 'round the bend", or off their rocker. Sherry Joyce |
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Someone from
the UK flamed me good one time for using the word "dander Now, what's wrong with that word? Is it another word, like f*nny, that doesn't mean anything bad over here but does over there? You know, to this day I don't know. I kind of suspect he just didn't know what the word meant. snipped. There was a horrid creature from the UK that used to be on the cat groups who called me "harpic." I'd never heard that one either! That's a new one. I assume it means "harpie-like"? Nice. LOL, no. IIRC, I was told that it was a toilet bowl cleaner, and there was a TV commercial or something that said it "Cleans 'round the bend." Thus, "harpic" was supposed mean somebody who was " 'round the bend", or off their rocker. Sherry Joyce |
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Someone from
the UK flamed me good one time for using the word "dander Now, what's wrong with that word? Is it another word, like f*nny, that doesn't mean anything bad over here but does over there? You know, to this day I don't know. I kind of suspect he just didn't know what the word meant. snipped. There was a horrid creature from the UK that used to be on the cat groups who called me "harpic." I'd never heard that one either! That's a new one. I assume it means "harpie-like"? Nice. LOL, no. IIRC, I was told that it was a toilet bowl cleaner, and there was a TV commercial or something that said it "Cleans 'round the bend." Thus, "harpic" was supposed mean somebody who was " 'round the bend", or off their rocker. Sherry Joyce |
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On 2004-10-23, Sherry wrote:
Gotta agree with you, Seanette. I posted about Jake back earlier in the summer. I made several suggestions to DH as to how to "relocate" him. (her?). The suggestions all kinda died for lack of a second. Jake eats mice. You might want to keep him. Jake's eating something, for sure. If he gets much bigger he's going to be scary. Here's a pic I took last spring when I caught him out on the top of the cellar sunning himself. http://members.aol.com/greywolf17/snake1.jpg http://members.aol.com/greywolf17/snake2.jpg Sherry |
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