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Re: Aeroplane-style craftsman bungalow
From:
Ralph Walter <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:
BP - "Preservationists shouldn't be neat freaks." -- Mary D
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Fri, 26 May 2000 13:37:33 EDT
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In a message dated 5/26/2000 10:53:13 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
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<< shouldn't we at least call the pent a
 > "cockpit" and not a lookout...:)
  >>

No.

On an airplane, it's a cockpit. On a house, it's a pent (or second floor
projecting up through the planes of the roof) that recalls a cockpit.

I think this would be the case even at the Mitty residence.

Ralph

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