Reply #19: Ayuh. [View All]

[BurtWorm]

But when I was a transplanted New Jersey-born kindergartner experiencing Mainers for the first time, there was a girl in my class who would always say, "May I go to the basement?" By which she meant "to the bathroom." For the longest time I thought "go to the basement" was how Mainers said go to the bathroom, but I think she only said that because the bathroom in that school was, in fact, in the basement. I think there was a distinction between cellars, which are in homes, and basements, which are in public buildings, but I'm not sure.

In any case, whenever I hear someone say they need to go to the basement for some purpose, I immediately think they want to go to the bathroom. :crazy: