[Sca-cooks] RE: Sca-cooks digest, Vol 1 #1111 - 16 msgs

[A. F. Murphy]

Only place I've ever seen it, in reference to NY, was, to go way back to an
earlier OT thread *G*,  in a book by Wodehouse. It is called Small
Bachelor, and is about the occupant of a Small Bachelor Flat on Washington
Square. I always just assumed Wodehouse hadn't picked up the Americanism
"apartment."

I grew up in Manhattan. I lived in an apartment, as did all my friends, as
did all my neighbors, as did all my classmates... They might be on the
Lower East Side (projects and tenemants) or the Upper East Side (Park
Avenue), but they were all apartments.

Anne


> [Original Message]
> From: Philip & Susan Troy <troy at asan.com>
> To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
 > Date: 12/14/01 11:22:47 PM
> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] RE: Sca-cooks digest, Vol 1 #1111 - 16 msgs
>
> A. F. Murphy wrote:
>
> > It is? Where on the East Coast? We certainly don't use it in New York or
> > New Jersey - I've lived in apartments my entire life!
>
> I think you need to travel through time, as well as some ways East, to
> get where Bear is talking about. It appears in, for example, books by
> Milt Gross in the 1920's, set in New York. But I agree (even though I
> never lived in an apartment except for a year as a teenager, and after
> getting married), it's not commonly used in New York today, AFAIK.
>
> Adamantius
> --
> Phil & Susan Troy
>
> troy at asan.com
>
> "It was so blatant that Roger threw at him.  Clemens gets away with
> things that get other people thrown out of games.  As long as they
> let him get away with it, it's going  to continue." -- Joe Torre, 9/98
>
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