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greedy kite

19th October 2015, 06:23
hankir; I sympathize with you on the "downs". I grew up almost in the South Downs (there are North Downs too)
and have never been able to understand why they aren't called Ups, so to speak................Perhaps that's a question someone can answer here, otherwise I'll have to try that other forum.....................Someone will no doubt say "it all depends on your point of view", I expect..................
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greedy kite

19th October 2015, 10:41
................for anyone who's interested, the answer came quickly on AB Under "Phrases & Sayings": quite surprising the adverb/preposition derived from the noun & not vice-versa........................
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