No idea!  
However it always confuses me that railway lines to London are "Up" even when they are going "down" to London.

SLOW up
SLOW down

Yes Renton.
You are right! 

Well... that got solved before I even started thinking about it

I came across this years ago but can't check it out.
 An old name for a small hill on Old English sounded something like "church". So a local hill was called Church. Then church came to mean what it means now, so the locals renamed it to Church Down, down being used in the way The Downs are used. So climbing the hill was up the down. Over the years that caused confusion, so the hill is now referred to as Churchdown Hill (literally Hill Hill Hill).

Oh, I agree El Loro

Thanks for that El Loro. I found that interesting.

brisket, if you have the time, can you do another one of your quizzes please? Same request to you hoochie.

Hi Scotty.  OK I will try to seek inspiration over the weekend.

Hi brisket..thankyou

I would like to know : What is the difference between a fell, a hill and a mountain?

The height and the gradient, I think.
Hill is smallest and least steep, mountain is tallest and steepest.

Me too...but at what point? And are hills and fells interchangeable words i.e. is it just a dialect thing?

According to Wikipedia, the word fell comes from Old Norse. In countries which use this word it generally signifies hills and mountains which are over the alpen tree line. In this country it is used mainly in the Lake District and the Pennine Dales. The alpen tree line varies around the world because of different climates. varying from 2300 feet in Alaska to 17000 feet in Bolivia.

In the UK, a hill is less than 1000 feet above sea level and a mountain is 1000 feet or more. This formed the story shown in the film The English Who Went Up a Hill and Came Down a Mountain.

Some people 'sit up' at the table, which is the same as sitting down... 

Going up town is same as going down town, I think

No. for me sitting up means 'not slouching - sitting with your back straight' whereas sitting down means getting on a seat.

Thanks El Loro...so me calling them hills in the N Yorks Moors and fells in the N Yorks Dales and the big buggers in the lake district and the pennines mountains was right (not that I knew why!)

Mountains more than 1000 feet??//?? You have one or two by you then Supes!

 Seems so...Was round your way today GJ , spotted several houses with Dari Taylor signs, don't suppose one of them was yours?...Oh and several people,(labour supporters) said to me that that they thought she lost to the Tory child 'cos of her plans to move that school to the site of that park...do you agree?

I was on one of 'em quite recently. The one above the pub which lost it's licence but still advertises free ale tomorrow.

Bliidy Hell, this is like treasure hunt, I don't know where you mean...dons Anneka Rice jumpsuit....could it be the one that sounds like a very delicious pudding?

  You've just given me a great idea for a new pudding  No it isn't.

Another clue please

I've  told you elsewhere  **Points at face etc etc.**

There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any
other two-letter word, and that is "UP."

It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP? At a meeting, why does a topic come UP? Why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report?

We call UP our friends. And we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver, we warm UP the leftovers and clean UPthe kitchen. We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car. At other times the little word has real special meaning. People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP  an appetite, and think UP excuses. To be dressed is one thing but to be dressed UP is special.

And this UP is confusing: A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP. We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night.

We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP!

To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP, look the word UP in the dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4th of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions. If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more. When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP. When the sun comes out we say it is clearing UP.

When it rains, it wets the earth and often messes things UP. When it doesn't rain for awhile, things dry UP.

One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP, for now my time is UP,  so………… Time to shut UP…..!

Lal you deserve a round of applause for that

lal

I am now going to be conscious of using the word UP

We should also mention the 1985 film "Up the Down Staircase".

Excellent research El Loro 

Lal...that was brilliant

Don't forget the Grand Old Duke of York.

For me too, but some say, 'let's sit up at tut'table', when they want people to sit down.

http://en.allexperts.com/q/Ety...4/Sit-versus-sit.htm