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