Mad kitty!

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"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote in message
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Yowie wrote:


I always find it weird to hear the American term "I'll write you"
rather
than saying "I'll write *to* you". I don't know when the dropped
"to" or the
"to the" in your case above first started to be thought of as
correct
grammar in American English, but to these Commonweatlth English
ears, it
always sounds wrong.

What I find even weirder is the comparatively new "I could
care less", when what is so clearly meant is "I could NOT
care less"!

That one really bugs me!

Joy

That one really irritates me too.
Elisabet

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Yowie wrote:


I always find it weird to hear the American term "I'll write you"
rather
than saying "I'll write *to* you". I don't know when the dropped
"to" or the
"to the" in your case above first started to be thought of as
correct
grammar in American English, but to these Commonweatlth English
ears, it
always sounds wrong.

What I find even weirder is the comparatively new "I could
care less", when what is so clearly meant is "I could NOT
care less"!

That one really bugs me!

Joy

That one really irritates me too.
Elisabet

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On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 17:36:49 -0500, Jeanne Hedge
yodeled:

On 22 Oct 2004 15:31:21 -0700,
(Enfilade) wrote:

We ALWAYS say go down cellar. I'm from a community of German
immigrants who settled in Ontario. I still say that myself.

I don't know about "go down the cellar", but in southern New Jersey
people "go down the shore" instead of "go to the beach"

My partner is from Prince Edward Island where "go down to the
basement" is in use.

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."

My US Midwest (central Indiana) grandmother called it a "davenport",
while my other grandmother, also from the US Midwest (western Iowa),
called it a "couch".


Hey, what about "sofa" ?

Theresa

We always called it a "davenport". I was floored when my son-in-law,
who is from Maine, asked, "What is a davenport?"

Joy

I call mine a settee. Doesn't it depend on whether or not its got arms at
both ends?

Tweed

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On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 17:36:49 -0500, Jeanne Hedge
yodeled:

On 22 Oct 2004 15:31:21 -0700,
(Enfilade) wrote:

We ALWAYS say go down cellar. I'm from a community of German
immigrants who settled in Ontario. I still say that myself.

I don't know about "go down the cellar", but in southern New Jersey
people "go down the shore" instead of "go to the beach"

My partner is from Prince Edward Island where "go down to the
basement" is in use.

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."

My US Midwest (central Indiana) grandmother called it a "davenport",
while my other grandmother, also from the US Midwest (western Iowa),
called it a "couch".


Hey, what about "sofa" ?

Theresa

We always called it a "davenport". I was floored when my son-in-law,
who is from Maine, asked, "What is a davenport?"

Joy

I call mine a settee. Doesn't it depend on whether or not its got arms at
both ends?

Tweed

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"Kreisleriana" wrote in message
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On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 17:36:49 -0500, Jeanne Hedge
yodeled:

On 22 Oct 2004 15:31:21 -0700,
(Enfilade) wrote:

We ALWAYS say go down cellar. I'm from a community of German
immigrants who settled in Ontario. I still say that myself.

I don't know about "go down the cellar", but in southern New Jersey
people "go down the shore" instead of "go to the beach"

My partner is from Prince Edward Island where "go down to the
basement" is in use.

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."

My US Midwest (central Indiana) grandmother called it a "davenport",
while my other grandmother, also from the US Midwest (western Iowa),
called it a "couch".


Hey, what about "sofa" ?

Theresa

We always called it a "davenport". I was floored when my son-in-law,
who is from Maine, asked, "What is a davenport?"

Joy

I call mine a settee. Doesn't it depend on whether or not its got arms at
both ends?

Tweed

I'm just going by the feel of the words, not checking
dictionaries or such now. And also, at least for me (and my hubby), a
cellar doesn't have to have anything to do with whether it's below
ground or not, even tho it usually is, but it's a place where to cool
store foods.

--
Christine

Yes! Except here it gets so hot that all cool-storing has to be underground. I
store all my garden-canned stuff in there. Except there's a 6-foot bullsnake
that lives there, so I have to get DH to retrieve anything for me. It's kind of
a joke. He comes back up with an armload of jars, and says, "Jake says hey."

Sherry

I'm just going by the feel of the words, not checking
dictionaries or such now. And also, at least for me (and my hubby), a
cellar doesn't have to have anything to do with whether it's below
ground or not, even tho it usually is, but it's a place where to cool
store foods.

--
Christine

Yes! Except here it gets so hot that all cool-storing has to be underground. I
store all my garden-canned stuff in there. Except there's a 6-foot bullsnake
that lives there, so I have to get DH to retrieve anything for me. It's kind of
a joke. He comes back up with an armload of jars, and says, "Jake says hey."

Sherry

I'm just going by the feel of the words, not checking
dictionaries or such now. And also, at least for me (and my hubby), a
cellar doesn't have to have anything to do with whether it's below
ground or not, even tho it usually is, but it's a place where to cool
store foods.

--
Christine

Yes! Except here it gets so hot that all cool-storing has to be underground. I
store all my garden-canned stuff in there. Except there's a 6-foot bullsnake
that lives there, so I have to get DH to retrieve anything for me. It's kind of
a joke. He comes back up with an armload of jars, and says, "Jake says hey."

Sherry

On 23 Oct 2004 04:36:08 GMT, CATherine
wrote:

I grew up in north Texas and we said couch; referring to the common
type of sitting furniture of people we knew. Plain, with 3 seat
cushions. A divan was a short armless 2-person settee and a davenport
was like a larger, more elaborate divan. sofa was a piece of furniture
for the rich. ;-D

Our large "couch" is/was always called a "sofa" (and we're *far*
from rich!). The 2-seater is/was called a "love seat."

Jeanne

On 23 Oct 2004 04:36:08 GMT, CATherine
wrote:

I grew up in north Texas and we said couch; referring to the common
type of sitting furniture of people we knew. Plain, with 3 seat
cushions. A divan was a short armless 2-person settee and a davenport
was like a larger, more elaborate divan. sofa was a piece of furniture
for the rich. ;-D

Our large "couch" is/was always called a "sofa" (and we're *far*
from rich!). The 2-seater is/was called a "love seat."

Jeanne