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Ardith Hinton:
AH> Anton Shepelev:
AS>> Alan Ianson:

AI>>> A root cellar is a place to "keep" food stuffs.

AS>> Probabaly so called because trees above would shoot
AS>> their roots through the cellar walls...

AH> Hmm... I didn't see a smiley there.

I am derailing the thread with crazy self-invented
etymologies. Root cellars are named after what they
store, which is root vegetables, such as potatoes.

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