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Cella

Basement. You go down cella.

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Should be "Sullah"

sketch on April 25, 2004 03:13 PM.

I've always thought of a nice cellar(well, cella) that you can accually hang out in as a basement. but a crappy one that is like a cave is a cellar to me. I guess since i've always had a "cellah" but my friends with nice ones call them basements

Pat on April 28, 2004 05:48 PM.

Agree with Pat. My folks have a real cella. Looks sort of like a cave, rocks jut out, then there is a crawl space, but we kept big oil tanks down there for years to heat the house. My dad had a workbench and tools and stuff down there. Then we had a second refridgerator down there, but sometimes just put stuff down there that needed to stay cool, since the cellar was cool enough.

graeme on November 13, 2004 04:22 PM.

oh MAN! I'm so happy to see this here; whenever we'd go into the basement we'd be going to a place called "downcella." For example: "Where's Courtney?" "She's downcella!"

I'm from Hudson, NH, but my whole family's from MA, (and if you know anything about Hudson, you know it borders Tyngsboro!) and we really grew up with the lingo. Living in Vermont, people really don't appreciate the phrase.

Courtney on October 19, 2005 01:26 AM.

Yup! I have a cella. If it's finished and you can hang out down there it's a basement. If it's just a hole in the ground under you house with the foundation exposed it's definitely a cella.

Kate on July 25, 2006 06:20 PM.

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