Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > alt.usage.english > #578694

Re: Outdoor cat

Show all headers | View raw

On Sat, 02 Jan 2016 12:14:54 -0000, charles <charles@candehope.me.uk> wrote:

> In article <MPG.30f1ce75a5f959a29a1@news.individual.net>, Janet
> <nobody@home.org> wrote:
>> In article <2be04d3b55.pnyoung@pnyoung.ormail.co.uk>,
>> pnyoung@ormail.co.uk says...
>> >
>> > On 1 Jan 2016  Pavel Svinchnik <pintiha@jhmi.edu> wrote:
>> >
>> > > On Friday, January 1, 2016 at 10:30:04 AM UTC-5, Mr Macaw wrote:
>> > >> On Fri, 01 Jan 2016 07:47:26 -0000, Peter Moylan
>> > >> <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> wrote:
>> > >>
>> > >>> In response to a question about a missing cat, I said "Oh, she'll
>> > >>> be in the yard somewhere. She's more of an outdoor cat."
>> > >>>
>> > >>> Now that I'm reading AUE, I'm suddenly wondering whether some
>> > >>> people here would have said "outdoors cat". Is the "s" optional in
>> > >>> some regions? Compulsory?
>> > >>
>> > >> It's quite simple, outdoor is an adjective.  Outdoors is a place,
>> > >> therefore a noun.  You "go outdoors" like you "get to Falkirk", but
>> > >> you have an outdoor barbecue, outdoor sex, etc.
>> > >>
>> > >> What annoyed me more was "yard" instead of garden.  A yard is made
>> > >> of concrete, don't you have grass?
>> > >>
>> > >> -- If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from
>> > >> morons?
>> >
>> > > In the U.S., we refer to the area around a house as a "yard",
>> > > generally covered with grass but could include trees, paths, a
>> > > driveway, and even a garden. A garden is that part of the yard where
>> > > one grows vegetables or flowers.
>> >
>> > > Where does a yard have to be made of concrete?
>> >
>> > In Britain.
>
>>     Not just concrete. Older yards in Britain were paved with cobbles or
>> stone slabs or bricks (and many still are).
>
>>     Janet
>
> particularly applicable to "farm yards".

So in America, the entire farm that isn't indoors, including the fields, would be the farmyard....

-- 
The only intuitive user interface is the nipple.

Back to alt.usage.english | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

Outdoor cat Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> - 2016-01-01 18:47 +1100
  Re: Outdoor cat RH Draney <dadoctah@cox.net> - 2016-01-01 01:54 -0700
    Re: Outdoor cat Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> - 2016-01-01 20:27 +1100
    Re: Outdoor cat bill van <billvan@delete.shaw.ca> - 2016-01-01 04:12 -0800
      Re: Outdoor cat Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com> - 2016-01-01 12:40 -0800
    Re: Outdoor cat "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> - 2016-01-01 15:31 +0000
  Re: Outdoor cat grabber <gr@bb.er> - 2016-01-01 09:40 +0000
  Re: Outdoor cat Peter Young <pnyoung@ormail.co.uk> - 2016-01-01 08:45 +0000
    Re: Outdoor cat "Peter Duncanson [BrE]" <mail@peterduncanson.net> - 2016-01-01 12:56 +0000
  Re: Outdoor cat Harrison Hill <harrisonhill2345@gmail.com> - 2016-01-01 04:04 -0800
    Re: Outdoor cat "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2016-01-01 07:02 -0800
      Re: Outdoor cat pensive hamster <pensive_hamster@hotmail.co.uk> - 2016-01-01 07:22 -0800
        Re: Outdoor cat "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> - 2016-01-01 15:27 +0000
          Re: Outdoor cat CDB <bellemarecd@gmail.com> - 2016-01-01 11:14 -0500
            Re: Outdoor cat "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> - 2016-01-01 16:25 +0000
      Re: Outdoor cat "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> - 2016-01-01 15:27 +0000
        Re: Outdoor cat "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2016-01-01 12:26 -0800
          Re: Outdoor cat "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> - 2016-01-01 20:32 +0000
            Re: Outdoor cat "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2016-01-01 19:50 -0800
              Re: Outdoor cat "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> - 2016-01-02 20:47 +0000
  Re: Outdoor cat "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> - 2016-01-01 15:29 +0000
    Re: Outdoor cat Pavel Svinchnik <pintiha@jhmi.edu> - 2016-01-01 13:14 -0800
      Re: Outdoor cat Peter Young <pnyoung@ormail.co.uk> - 2016-01-01 21:16 +0000
        Re: Outdoor cat Janet <nobody@home.org> - 2016-01-02 12:10 +0000
          Re: Outdoor cat charles <charles@candehope.me.uk> - 2016-01-02 12:14 +0000
            Re: Outdoor cat "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> - 2016-01-02 20:53 +0000
          Re: Outdoor cat Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> - 2016-01-03 10:42 +1100
        Re: Outdoor cat "Peter Duncanson [BrE]" <mail@peterduncanson.net> - 2016-01-02 13:00 +0000
          Re: Outdoor cat "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> - 2016-01-02 20:54 +0000
      Re: Outdoor cat "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> - 2016-01-01 21:22 +0000
        Re: Outdoor cat Pavel Svinchnik <pintiha@jhmi.edu> - 2016-01-01 19:12 -0800
          Re: Outdoor cat jgh@mdfs.net - 2016-01-02 01:03 -0800
            Re: Outdoor cat Pavel Svinchnik <pintiha@jhmi.edu> - 2016-01-02 06:20 -0800
          Re: Outdoor cat "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> - 2016-01-02 20:57 +0000
        Re: Outdoor cat "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2016-01-01 19:53 -0800
          Re: Outdoor cat "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> - 2016-01-02 20:48 +0000
            Re: Outdoor cat "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2016-01-02 13:37 -0800
              Re: Outdoor cat "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> - 2016-01-02 21:42 +0000
                Re: Outdoor cat "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2016-01-02 21:26 -0800
                Re: Outdoor cat "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> - 2016-01-03 18:32 +0000
                Re: Outdoor cat "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2016-01-03 11:04 -0800
                Re: Outdoor cat "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> - 2016-01-03 19:26 +0000
                Re: Outdoor cat Ross <benlizro@ihug.co.nz> - 2016-01-03 18:07 -0800
                Re: Outdoor cat "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2016-01-03 19:53 -0800
                Re: Outdoor cat "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> - 2016-01-04 15:58 +0000
                Re: Outdoor cat GordonD <g.davie@btinternet.com> - 2016-01-04 16:19 +0000
                Re: Outdoor cat "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> - 2016-01-04 17:16 +0000
        Re: Outdoor cat "Peter Duncanson [BrE]" <mail@peterduncanson.net> - 2016-01-02 13:07 +0000
          Re: Outdoor cat "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> - 2016-01-02 20:55 +0000
      Re: Outdoor cat nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2016-01-02 11:38 +0100
        Re: Outdoor cat "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> - 2016-01-02 20:51 +0000
          Re: Outdoor cat nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2016-01-03 10:34 +0100
            Re: Outdoor cat "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> - 2016-01-03 18:33 +0000
  Re: Outdoor cat Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> - 2016-01-01 10:46 -0500
    Re: Outdoor cat David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2016-01-01 09:23 -0800
  Re: Outdoor cat jgh@mdfs.net - 2016-01-02 00:54 -0800
    Re: Outdoor cat "Peter Duncanson [BrE]" <mail@peterduncanson.net> - 2016-01-02 13:39 +0000
      Re: Outdoor cat David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2016-01-02 09:42 -0800
      Re: Outdoor cat pensive hamster <pensive_hamster@hotmail.co.uk> - 2016-01-02 09:59 -0800

csiph-web