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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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