<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 - 17 September 2007 - Volume 01</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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<span id="_user_wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Paul Finlow-Bates <<a href="mailto:wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk">wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Lexicon" 2007.09.16 (02) [E]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<font size="2">Hi Ron,</font></div>
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<div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2">For me at least, those words aren't exactly synonymous.</font></div>
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<div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2">A
"basement" suggests some sort of practical use - living space,
workspace, even car parking. A "cellar" conjours up a rather dank
hole in the ground for throwing things in, that you can't think what
else to do with.</font></div>
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<div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2">We
have "basement flats" in many English and Scottish cities, apartments
below street level. You wouldn't get many takers for a "cellar flat".</font></div>
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<div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2">I
percieve "corridors" to be necessarily much longer than they are wide;
"hallsways" could be almost square - though that's just a personal take
on it.</font></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Paul Finlow-Bates</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><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_wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Paul Finlow-Bates <
<a href="mailto:wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk">wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Lexicon" 2007.09.16 (04) [E]
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<div>From Ron:</div>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><font size="2">Furthermore, I wonder about the distribution of the following.</font></div>
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<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>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><font size="2">floor" is "first floor" in North America.</font></div></span></div></div></div></div></font></div><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
This is a bit like the Millennium debate: do you start counting at 1, or zero?</span>
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<div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2">I've
noticed that two former Empire colonies have different usage: Hong Kong
follows British/Australian usage of Ground, One Two etc, whereas
Singapore starts with One at ground level.</font></div>
<div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2"> </font></div>
<div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2">In
some respects the British way seems illogical - a building with only
one floor is still called a single-storey structure. On the other
hand, if you're on the ground level and want to get to the 3rd Floor,
you know you have three sets of stairs to climb, not two as Americans
would have it! Maybe Americans are more likely to take the lift..
Sorry, elevator :)</font></div>
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<div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Paul Finlow-Bates<br><br>
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From: <font size="2"><span id="_user_mark.brooks@twc.state.tx.us" style="color: rgb(200, 137, 0);">"Brooks, Mark"</span></font><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="lg"> <<a href="mailto:mark.brooks@twc.state.tx.us">
mark.brooks@twc.state.tx.us</a>></span><br>
Subject: LL-L "Lexicon" 2007.09.16 (02) [E]</font>
<br><p><font size="1"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><font size="2">Ron wrote:</font><font color="navy"><span style="color: navy;"> </span></font></span><font size="2">Most US Americans understand "cellar" and
"corridor."</font></font></p></div><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">I live in Texas and I would call that underground part of the house a basement. Back when I was a kid, Fort Worth, Texas (I lived in Dallas) had a night club called The Cellar which had all kinds of goings on. Of course, none of us had ever witnessed the lascivious behavior purported to take place there, but it was the thing of legend. You know…just far enough away to have lots of mystery. In that regard, I image that most of us would have loved to have a cellar under our house.
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">I'd also call that long narrow area linking one room to another in a house the "hall." The word "hallway" seems a little stilted to my ear, but I would certainly understand it.
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">I definitely would not call that long narrow area a "corridor." A corridor would be something more "official" like "the corridor from Austin to San Antonio has grown more populous." It would be a government kind of thing. In fact, right now we have a controversy here in Texas about what the Governor calls the Trans Texas Corridor. It would be several long strips of land that would have highways, railways, oil and gas pipelines, running side by side across the state. It has something to do with NAFTA. Anyway, I would use the word "corridor" for something like that, but not an area inside my house.
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Mark Brooks</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">