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The Two Storey Outhouse
frontiersman Started conversation Apr 24, 2005
In the UK the term 'outhouse' usually refers to a 'lean-to', that is, a building using one of the walls of the main building, and consisting of 3 'free' walls and usually a sloping roof. Another UK use of the term means a shed or other free-standing building in the garden (or estate if you are British middle or upper-class which the writer is not).
The building you are illustrating exists in Britain, of course, but we politely refer to it as a 'S...house, sometimes a brick s...house if we are referring to a rather muscular guy!
Notice how we in the UK spell storey! A story in Britain is what I have just told you!
R 
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David Conway Posted Apr 24, 2005
Thanks for that, Ronbloggs. I've already addressed the story/storey problem. I'll think about how to adress the American vs. English vocabulary problem.
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