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In the South Island, the self-same holiday homes of all genera are called cribs.
So *that's* where the ebonics word came from. (But in South Central LA, where it's used, one's crib is his home, not his vacation villa).
And how do you pronounce bach(e)? Like batch? Has it anything to do with bachelor/ette? Perhaps because it is where one flees when he suddenly finds himself single again?
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....aesthetically-challenged multiplexes...
Are there any other kind?
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Crib = Home : It's still used 'ere... where I've 'eard it used since at least '74. It may have been *adopted by ebonics... 
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BobY, a honeydipper?? Ohmigawd, I'd say I'm rolling, but I'm afraid I'd be rolling IN something... The OEO, huh? Um, were the songwriters for The Wizard of Oz from that area outside Baltimore, by any chance?
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The OEO, huh? Um, were the songwriters for The Wizard of Oz from that areac'mon, everybody knows that was the "Oreo song". http://www.tardislabs.com/qf/wizard.html
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I never claimed that "crib" and "bach" were words specifically made up in Zild. They've just been suborned to colloquial usage. The AHD has this to say about crib: (Haven't I heard that expression somewhere else?)
crib (krib)
n.
1. A bed with high sides for a young child or baby.
2. A small building, usually with slatted sides, for storing corn.
(a) A rack or trough for fodder; a manger.
(b) A stall for cattle.
(c) A small crude cottage or room.
Slang. One's home.
So, Keven, the usage you have heard was perfectly correct.
For bach, however, there appears to be no dictionary entry which equates to "house" or "small house". Maybe it's an original usage? Perhaps tsuwm, with his access to more authorative dictionaries, can find one more closely related to house.
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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tsuwm, that link was in-doob-itably surreal, man.  ======================================================== Back to summer homes--the name for them in Russia is on the tip of my tongue...can anyone help me out?
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the name for them in Russia is on the tip of my tongue...can anyone help me out?
Dacha, I think.
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That's it. Thanks, Rapunzel. I knew bach reminded me of it somehow.
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