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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 16 September 2007 - Volume 04</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Song Contest: <a href="http://lowlands-l.net/contest/">lowlands-l.net/contest/</a> (- 31 Dec. 2007)</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
========================================================================</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: </span>
<span id="_user_KarlRein@aol.com" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">"<a href="mailto:KarlRein@aol.com">KarlRein@aol.com</a>"</span><span style="font-weight: normal; font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="lg">
<<a href="mailto:KarlRein@aol.com">KarlRein@aol.com</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: East-West</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" color="#000000" face="Arial Unicode MS" size="2"><div>My earliest memories are from New Jersey where houses had "cellars"
occasionally called "basements". When I moved to Oklahoma it was made
clear to me that "cellars" were storm-cellars (underground tornado-shelters),
and the floor below the first floor of a house was a "basement", not a
"cellar".</div>
<div>Now I live in eastern Texas where practically nobody has a basement, and
your country cousins think a cellar is where their kinfolks kept food for
storage. Come to think of it, we also a mighty close to sea-level, and
underground garages have, you hope, pumps for when the bayous rise.</div>
<div>As to corridor and hallway, they have, all my life, been plain
"halls".</div>
<div>Karl [Reinhardt]<br><br>----------<br><br>From: <span id="_user_ben.j.bloomgren@gmail.com" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">"Ben J. Bloomgren" <<a href="mailto:ben.j.bloomgren@gmail.com">ben.j.bloomgren@gmail.com
</a>></span><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="lg"></span><br>Subject: LL-L "Lexicon" 2007.09.16 (02) [E]<br><br><div id="mb_1">
<div dir="ltr" bgcolor="#ffffff"><span class="q">
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); margin-left: 40px;"><font size="2">It has long seemed to me that two sets of English
words are geographically distributed "east vs west," where "east" is Britain and
British Commonwealth<br>country as well as Eastern North America, and "west" is
the rest of North America and territories of its influence. I am wondering
if there is any basis<br>to it. </font></div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); margin-left: 40px;"> </div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); margin-left: 40px;"><font size="2">East:</font></div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); margin-left: 40px;"> </div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); margin-left: 40px;"><font size="2">1. cellar<br>2. corridor</font></div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); margin-left: 40px;"> </div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); margin-left: 40px;"><font size="2">West:</font></div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); margin-left: 40px;"> </div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); margin-left: 40px;"><font size="2">1. basement<br>2. hallway</font></div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); margin-left: 40px;"> </div>
<div><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><font size="2"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">If this is at least roughly correct, I wonder where
the dividing line is. I expect it to be somewhere in the Eastern Midwest
(in Canada perhaps at the</span></font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><font size="2"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">eastern end of Ontario).</span></font></div><font size="2"> </font></div>
<div> </div>
</span><span class="q"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); margin-left: 40px;"><font size="2">Admittedly, I am not totally sure about Canada in
this regard. I do hear the "western" set in British Columbia and Alberta,
but as a Commonwealth Country<br>with large numbers of British immigrants and
greater exposure to non-American English media Canada tends to be more of a
mixed bag. </font></div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); margin-left: 40px;"> </div>
<div><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><font size="2"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Most US Americans understand "cellar" and
"corridor." So far I have only come across one young Californian that
didn't understand what was meant by "corridor,"</span></font><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><font size="2"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">believing it was some special
Mexican thing ...</span></font></div><font size="2"> </font></div>
<div> </div></span>
<div><font size="2">Ron, I live in Arizona (while I'm not in Mexico),
and we rarely have basements. However, wine collectors are said to have a wine
cellar. Also, a cellar connotes a stuffy, musty place below a building where ya
really don't wanna go trapsing around unless ya have to. A basement can connote
that, but I've heard about more basements that are functional rooms. As far as a
dividing line for basement/cellar, I hear cellar more back in the east, like by
New York and such. "Ah just put in in de cella." As far as a corridor versus a
hallway, to me, a corridor is a huge hallway in an enormous building. I would
use corridor in the sense of "The corridors of the UN" or 'We went down a long
corridor to get from the lobby to the secretary general's office." Hallways are
normally sized hallways in something like a school or an office building. "My
classroom is the last one on the right side of this hallway."</font></div><span class="q">
<div> </div>
</span><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span class="q"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><font size="2">Furthermore, I wonder about the distribution of the
following.</font></div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"> </div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><font size="2">In Europe (not only in English), generally "first
floor" (or "first stor(e)y") is what at least in parts of North America is
"second floor," while "ground</font></div></span><br><span class="q"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><font size="2">floor" is "first floor" in North
America.</font></div></span></div><span class="q">
<div> </div></span>
<div><font size="2">In my lifetime, the ground floor has always been
the first floor or first story. We say first floor when we're talking about
where something is located. "The professor's office is on the fourth floor." We
use story when we're saying how tall a building is. "This tower is fifty stories
tall."</font></div>
<div><font size="2">Ben</font></div></div></div><br>
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