This is half-timbering: http://www.travellertimbers.co.uk/pages/tt006.html
-- Cheers, Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: Rob Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 22 May 2005 10:20 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: PESO the 1st: Half-timbering > > Hi Johannes, > > As your English seems very good, here are some notes on actul > usage over > here: > > Half-timbering would be the correct description, but it > sounds strange and I have never heard it actually used that > way in English. 'Half timbered' is pretty much the only > gramatical form in current usage although other verb tenses > are undoubtably correct. > > Framework doesn't actually mean very much at all - it would > equally apply to a modern steel and glass construction, 'wood > framed' is common usage but implies a fully timbered house > rather than the half timbered subject of yours. > > Rob.
