Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 00:48:07 -0700

From: Rima & Kim McKinzey rkm[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]SLIP.NET

Subject: Re: Another Lexical Item



At 4:14 PM 10/8/95, Natalie Maynor wrote:

back to the major point -- which were you told and which do you tell very

young children at Halloween (when did we lose the apostrophe?) to go 'up'

(?) in order to knock at doors and yell "Trick or Treat!"?



In my childhood, it was go "up to the door", but either up or down the

street depending on one's orientation and perspective.



(Of course, when I was real little, we lived in an apartment house, so

sidewalks or walkways of any sort were totally irrelevant. We confined our

Trick or Treating to the other apartments)



Rima