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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 02</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: R. F. Hahn <
<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
sassisch@yahoo.com</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: Lexicon<br><br>Dear Lowlanders,<br><br>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 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 to it.
<br><br></span><div style="margin-left: 40px; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">East:<br></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><div style="margin-left: 40px;">1. cellar<br>2. corridor<br></div>
<br></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">West:<br></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><div style="margin-left: 40px;">1. basement<br>2. hallway<br></div><br>
</div><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">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 eastern end of Ontario).
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">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 with large numbers of British immigrants and greater exposure to non-American English media Canada tends to be more of a mixed bag.
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">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," believing it was some special Mexican thing ...
<br><br>Furthermore, I wonder about the distribution of the following.<br><br>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 floor" is "first floor" in North America.
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">I'll be interested to hear your takes on these issues.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Regards,</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Reinhard/Ron</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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