Mad kitty!

(LOL!). It's a room/space/hut built either partly into the ground or at
ground level, and then covered with earth. Such a cellar is used for
cool storage of food, and has been used for ages.

That reminds me of the cellars people had when I was a kid. We called them dirt
cellars. The door was usually more slanted, but the walls were just earth with
beam supports. They were kind of creepy but necessary for tornado shelter as
well as food storage.
Sherry

(LOL!). It's a room/space/hut built either partly into the ground or at
ground level, and then covered with earth. Such a cellar is used for
cool storage of food, and has been used for ages.

That reminds me of the cellars people had when I was a kid. We called them dirt
cellars. The door was usually more slanted, but the walls were just earth with
beam supports. They were kind of creepy but necessary for tornado shelter as
well as food storage.
Sherry

Brrrrr! If it were my cellar, Jake would have been evicted by now. :-)

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.
Sherry

Brrrrr! If it were my cellar, Jake would have been evicted by now. :-)

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.
Sherry

Brrrrr! If it were my cellar, Jake would have been evicted by now. :-)

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.
Sherry

"CATherine" wrote in message
...
On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 09:07:51 GMT, wrote:

Yoj wrote:

After all, if you say "in THE hospital", you must be
talking about a specific hospital, LOL!

Generally a person is in a specific hospital. G

Yes, but that's not what that usage implies. People refer to "the
hospital" to simply mean that the person is in a hospital, any hospital.
They're not referring to a previously named one.

I'm sure a grammarian could explain this more articulately!

Joyce

I usually think of "he/she is in hospital" as the same as "he/she has
been hospitalized". When "the hospital" is used, the response is,
"which one?"

As for the cellar/shore usage, I never lived near a shore; but I have
had a basement as an adult, as well as a cellar. And as an adult I
have always used correct (by the book) grammar referring to them.
There was simply no childhood colloquialism to grow up with. BTW, what
is wrong with ending a sentence with a preposition? It sounds more
natural! grin

--
CATherine

Who was it who said, "Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up
with which we must put!"?

Hugs,

CatNipped

"CATherine" wrote in message
...
On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 09:07:51 GMT, wrote:

Yoj wrote:

After all, if you say "in THE hospital", you must be
talking about a specific hospital, LOL!

Generally a person is in a specific hospital. G

Yes, but that's not what that usage implies. People refer to "the
hospital" to simply mean that the person is in a hospital, any hospital.
They're not referring to a previously named one.

I'm sure a grammarian could explain this more articulately!

Joyce

I usually think of "he/she is in hospital" as the same as "he/she has
been hospitalized". When "the hospital" is used, the response is,
"which one?"

As for the cellar/shore usage, I never lived near a shore; but I have
had a basement as an adult, as well as a cellar. And as an adult I
have always used correct (by the book) grammar referring to them.
There was simply no childhood colloquialism to grow up with. BTW, what
is wrong with ending a sentence with a preposition? It sounds more
natural! grin

--
CATherine

Who was it who said, "Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up
with which we must put!"?

Hugs,

CatNipped

"CATherine" wrote in message
...
On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 09:07:51 GMT, wrote:

Yoj wrote:

After all, if you say "in THE hospital", you must be
talking about a specific hospital, LOL!

Generally a person is in a specific hospital. G

Yes, but that's not what that usage implies. People refer to "the
hospital" to simply mean that the person is in a hospital, any hospital.
They're not referring to a previously named one.

I'm sure a grammarian could explain this more articulately!

Joyce

I usually think of "he/she is in hospital" as the same as "he/she has
been hospitalized". When "the hospital" is used, the response is,
"which one?"

As for the cellar/shore usage, I never lived near a shore; but I have
had a basement as an adult, as well as a cellar. And as an adult I
have always used correct (by the book) grammar referring to them.
There was simply no childhood colloquialism to grow up with. BTW, what
is wrong with ending a sentence with a preposition? It sounds more
natural! grin

--
CATherine

Who was it who said, "Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up
with which we must put!"?

Hugs,

CatNipped

(Enfilade) had some very interesting
things to say about OT: "go down cellar":

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."

I usually call it a sofa.

--
"The universe is quite robust in design and appears to be
doing just fine on its own, incompetent support staff notwithstanding.
:-)" - the Dennis formerly known as (evil), MCFL

(Enfilade) had some very interesting
things to say about OT: "go down cellar":

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."

I usually call it a sofa.

--
"The universe is quite robust in design and appears to be
doing just fine on its own, incompetent support staff notwithstanding.
:-)" - the Dennis formerly known as (evil), MCFL