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To: Tommaso who wrote (164)	1/2/1998 5:39:00 PM
From: Janice Shell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4710

Ah-- Not the same thing at all: but I have East Coast (specifically Philadelphia/New Jersey) friends who speak of "going down the shore". When someone objects to this locution, Alice responds: "Don't you say you're "going down the cellar"? Both incorrect, and probably this takes us back to the question of archaisms. Janice

To: Tommaso who wrote (164)	1/2/1998 5:58:00 PM
From: Janice Shell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4710

But what is "away"--an adverb? "Gone" is indeed a past participle, so I erred. But on the other hand, "away" isn't necessarily an adverb: it can also be a noun. As in: "I swept the fragments of the broken plate THERE". In this case "there" is a "thing".