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-- stoops (for exterior set of stairs on a house) is another dutch word that is very common. (use has extended beyond NYC) but there is no joking about this!



Way beyond, Helen.

Back a couple of years ago when I was in school in Dixie there was a girl named Carolyn Screws...no! That was another girl!...anyway, there was a girl at school named Carolyn Porch. So we silly boys ran around snickering and chanted, "Porch is a stoop!.

She wasn't. She was a prettty girl and we were just trying to get her attention. We Dixie boys had a way with women.