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Cella

Basement. You go down cella to get some b'daydas.

re: Cella

By sketch (not verified) | Sun, 04/25/2004 - 2:13pm

Should be "Sullah"

re: Cella

By Pat (not verified) | Wed, 04/28/2004 - 4:48pm

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

re: Cella

By graeme (not verified) | Sat, 11/13/2004 - 4:22pm

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.

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By Courtney (not verified) | Wed, 10/19/2005 - 12:26am

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.

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By Kate (not verified) | Tue, 07/25/2006 - 5:20pm

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.

Cella

By Fred R (not verified) | Wed, 08/12/2009 - 9:20am

I cannot understand why Amtrak call their fancy train a cella.

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