#53863
01/29/2002 5:40 PM
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>you're one of USn, helen. What do the Brits say?
Not to put words into their mouths, but I'm sure they'll agree that Helen's one of USn!
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#53864
01/29/2002 5:50 PM
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I'm sure they'll agree that Helen's one of USn!Hey! I'm the pedantic nitpicker here  !
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#53865
01/29/2002 6:53 PM
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What do the Brits say?
Hey!
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#53866
01/29/2002 6:59 PM
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#53867
01/29/2002 8:52 PM
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Dublin is suddenly British? Hey, back. As an ex-pat Kiwi in Britain, I can categorically state that the British use the word ... for the little window over the door. In Zild, however, all small windows, whether over a door or over a larger window, are known as fanlights. And a lot of them are hinged at the top and are opened by the use of a screw turned by a cord loop. Which inevitably either breaks or gets caught up in the screw mechanism, which in turn inevitably seizes solid so that the only way you can get the damned window open is to unscrew the whole damned contraption and heave in the bloody rubbish bin! If it's your own home you then go out and buy a sliding catch type of thing. If it's a flat (apartment to you benighted people east of LA), you either nail it shut permanently or let the damned thing flap. [pant-pant-pant -e] 
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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#53868
01/30/2002 1:01 AM
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My house has a painful* number of ... windowsWell, what else WOULD windows be full of?? 
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#53869
01/30/2002 1:06 AM
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And in "Aussie" we say Fairy Floss...
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#53870
01/30/2002 5:25 AM
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To be honest, I don't think I've ever called it anything except the window over the front door. If a window's made up of small slats that open and close by being swung round a horizontal axis, I'd call it a louvre window, is that what you mean by a transom?
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#53871
01/30/2002 9:00 AM
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I would agree that fanlights are fixed. They're particularly popular in Georgian architecture and you get some people who make whole studies about them. They come in a wide variety of patterns - mine has a number of interlocking oval shapes filling in the semi-circle, others look a bit like the sun with rays coming out of them, some are much fancier. If it's just got plain glass in it, then odds on the original was removed at some point and you've just got a poor imitation.
The fanlight is also usually where the house number is put.
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#53872
01/30/2002 2:56 PM
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made up of small slats that open and close by being swung round a horizontal axisNot quite. The transom would be like one giant louvre rather than a bunch in parallel. Louvre transom
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#53873
01/30/2002 3:00 PM
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worthy of hangin' in the Louvre, ol feller! 
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#53874
01/30/2002 3:26 PM
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In American architecture, fanlights were typical to the Adam, Colonial Revival, and Early Classical Revival styles. As was already mentioned, fanlights can be variously decorated; one very common version here is the spider light, in which the muntins and glazing are arranged to appear like a spider web.
Transoms can be made to open several ways; a pivot opening has the pivot in the middle of the window pane, so that it spins to become perpendicular to the frame; a hopper window pivots out from the bottom of the pane; and an awning window pivots out from the top of the pane.
"Window" comes from "wind holes," early openings which served principally to provide draft and emit smoke from internal fires.
The components of a window are:
head
jamb
sill
sash
frame
muntin
glazing
If in a wood-frame wall, the structure above the window is supported by a header; if in a masonry wall, the structure above the window is supported by a lintel.
And to complete the list of windows by opening type ... other windows can be fixed, single- or double-hung, casement, sliding or louver.
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#53875
01/30/2002 6:32 PM
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Dear Faldage: Does the Louvre have any louvers?
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