---- YukiYama2@aol.com wrote: > Thanks to the 2 who responded to the "Piazza" question. My grandfather > used it...( in the1950's when I was a child) and we thought it funny since it > was not a term used then. We thought it may have been because of the > Spanish settlers in FL (where we lived)...that he had picked it up from their > use....He was referring to his long front porch with 2 porch swings facing > each other...and chairs for relaxing.... Does anyone know why the settlers > in GA and N. FL. might have picked up this vocabulary? My dictionary shows "piazza" as another word for veranda, used in New England and the South. It was probably an adaptation of the Italian word. Hugh