"clear story"

I always imagined it as only one floor.

it is pronounced "clear story" and can be spelled either way...

clearstory (one word) or clerestory...

i prefer the second spelling...i once redlined some drawings correcting the spelling <clearstory> on every note...then someone showed me a dictionary that said both spellings are acceptable

here's what your contractor will think you mean

http://www.contractorreferral.com/glossary/index.php?s=clerestory

DIFFERENT SUBJECT...

one of my co-workers sometimes pronounces the word "column" like this:

"CALL-YUM"

like it would rhyme with volume.
this aggravates me.

has anyone else heard this?

Oh man that is so wrong.

i haven't heard any pronounce column like that...

but nothing drives my crazier than someone calling masonry masonary...

especially when it is the masonry subcontractor...

This funny old Construction Manager I used to work with referred to balusters or small columns / rails on stairs or decorative overlooks as "bollards"... I'm sure he knew the difference, he just liked to sound funny. Our mason / bricklayer used to call a chimney a "chimley" and used to say "masonary" instead of masonry. Strangely he was the best brick & block guy I've ever known. Your situation sounds like he may be from Alabama.

Kentuckyan in our office keeps referring to a Mr. Gonzales as 'gone-zales(as in the jewelers). i never really get tired of hearing it.

is it some sort of national "mis-prononunce words day"

someone just asked if they could borrow my "calcRUlator"

maybe i am just having an extra grammar-sensitive monday...

that's simular to our consultant who wants us to advise on LEED'S

My construction teacher used to call gypsum, "gypsin."

or similar......... I have mistyped today, I guess it's not as bad as misspelling. :)

"ARE YOU DA LEED ARCHITECT?" haha WORD UP YO.

least he didn't call it drywall.

i hear lots of people say "LEED'S" and often wonder where that S comes from...but sometimes i guess it gets in there when people are contracting LEED and IS...

or at least that is how i've excused it...but it still bothers me.

aluminIum anyone?

my mates in london always laughed when i said aluminum, without the second I. but they understood.

i say clerestory like eclair, not like everclear. must be a canadian thing.

no idea if it can be more than one story high but has never come up...if it did i would just call it fenestration to cover my ignorance.

i dont know lemme call my MASON-ARY contractor...

I had an academic advisor, at the Uni that I attended previous to transferring to UF to pursue architecture who mis-pronounced the word "architecture."

Arch - itecture, sounding out the "ch" sound, not a hard "k" sound.

I don't know what a "clearstory" is, but a "clerestory" is a row of windows - or perhaps just one - up high in a wall right under the roof that bring(s) in light from above.

Does clearstory have to do with a basement that's partially above grade? I'm stumped.

But then I don't know what an "Irish Car Bomb" is either.

just dont get defenestrated!!!

Is she cute and does she speak with a scarlet drawl? If so, that's damn hot.

lb-

An Irish Car Bomb is a wonderful thing. First you pour 1/2 a shot of Jamison into a shot glass. Then you fill the shot glass up with Bailey's. Then you drop the shot glass into half a pint of Guiness and drink.

Quickly.

Before the Bailey's curdles.

Please, whatever you do, don't let the Bailey's curdle!!

yea and talking abt windows..why do people in our fraternity persist on spelling sill as cill ?

its genetic?

Its archibable ... and the constant need for us to identify ourselves as "Architects"!!!

my mother-in-law says the basin in the laundry is the  laundry TROUGH as in plough....I thought it was always should be sounded as in cough - coff!  troff....which is it?