Wednesday 7 May 2008

cultural idosyncrasies

In English, the expression is to warm a house,
in Spanish "estrenas una casa", meaning you 'wear it' for the first time
in French, you have a "Pendaison de crémaillère", expression orginary from the Middle ages, meaning you add the last bit of the house, the piece that allows you to cook in the chimney

others?

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