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