Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 09:40:41 -0400

From: Wayne Glowka wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MAIL.GAC.PEACHNET.EDU

Subject: Re: go up to



This has probably reached "mootdom," but "up" in the sense of "go up to the

door" to me would mean "right up to."



"Walk up the street," however would be going north, up a slope, or walking

towards a position that the speaker is psychologically identifying with.







yoroshiku

Benjamin Barrett





The reason you go "up a walk" to a house is that if you didn't, the yard

and the house would flood every time it rained. We're talking common sense

here, not dialect.



Seth Sklarey

Wittgenstein School of the Unwritten Word

Coconut Grove, FL



Real estate books warn that a buyer should look for a house "above grade."







Wayne Glowka

Professor of English

Director of Research and Graduate Student Services

Georgia College

Milledgeville, GA 31061

912-453-4222

wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]mail.gac.peachnet.edu