A porch, with a screen

[chiph]

I'm in the process of finding someone to rent my house while I'm working elsewhere, and the realtor from the rental agency insisted that a screened-in porch was spelled "screen-in porch". Or sometimes "screen porch"

Anyone see other variations on this?

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[edfair]

screened porch. May be local usage.

 

[GSCaupling]

It's "screened-in porch" like you said. Where's your realtor from?

GS

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[Turkbear]

Hi,
Its was always called a screened-in porch where I was from ( Virginia) - Perhaps you might want to change realtors..





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[kjv1611]

Yeah, I've never heard it called anything BUT "screened-in porch," and I've spent lots o' time 'round some real old timers.

On my house, we have some "Sun Rooms" or "Florida Rooms" - one used to be a "Screened-in Porch."

I'm in SC.

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[2ffat]

Screened-in porch" and "screen porch" and the two I've heard. I suspect that "screen-in porch" is what realtors use when they try to save space in listings.



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[SF0751]

Wouldn't be be "scrn prch"?

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[SantaMufasa]

Reminds me of the story about the woman that felt sympathy for the guy with the sign:

Help Me Feed My Children.
Will Work For Food.

She gave the guy her address and invited him to come and do some outside painting for $100. When he arrived, she said:

There's a gallon of green paint, a brush, and a roller out back...Please paint the porch.

At the end of the job, the fellow came to the front door and reported:

I'm done with the job, but Ma'am, I got news for ya'...that wasn't a Porch...it's a Ferrari.

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[CajunCenturion]

Since there is no hyphen in the verb "to screen in", there should not be a hyphen in the corresponding adjective. I'm not in favor of using the 'in' as I don't think it's necessary, but that leaves us with two basic choices: "screen (in) porch" or "screened (in) porch". Generally speaking, when verbs are used as adjectives, you either take the present tense form and add 'ing', or you take the past participle form. Since "screening porch" doesn't work very well, I would suggest that you use "screened (in) porch".

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[SkipVought]

A screened porch (san "in") might be one that has been thru a test or evaluation of some sort.

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[robmazco]

how about breeze-way?

 

[CajunCenturion]

==> A screened porch (san "in&quot might be one that has been thru a test or evaluation of some sort.
You could make that argument for certain contexts.

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[SF0751]

A breezeway is more of a hallway without without walls.
What about "Enclosed Porch"?

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[AnotherHiggins]

Enclosed Porch" sounds to me like it has something more substantial that screens at the perimeter.

I've never heard "screen-in porch" - but, then, I'm in the same city as Chip.

Until James suggested that it might be realtor lingo, I assumed that it was a mondegreen - that the realtor has simply misunderstood what others are saying.

I still think that is likely the case.

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[vb5prgrmr]

I have heard...

Screen Covered Porch

Weather Deck (Porch) (from an owner of a yacht) and with the addition of ALL for one that had removable/sliding glass partitions for extended all weather use and thus turning it into a “Sun Deck”.

and probably the second worst one I have heard (yours being the first) was...

Screened Over Porch




I would suggest a realtor or management company with a representative that still has some gleam left in their eyes or at least a little glimmer of intelligence.

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[SamBones]

Realtors here would probably use the word "Lanai" as it is much more upscale. Screened in porch just reeks of Home Depot. Lanai invokes images of cool breezes on a warm summer night somewhere in the islands.

It's all marketing really.

 

[CajunCenturion]

==> how about breeze-way?
I don't think breeze-way is hyphenated compound noun, but it's also not a similar construct. You're not applying the verb "to breeze" to a "way" to form a breezeway, like you are when you screen a porch to make a screened porch.


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[jebenson]

Growing up I heard this mostly as "screen porch," with some people calling it a "skeeter porch," as the screening (mostly) blocks mosquitoes.

I think the words "skeeter porch" would look brilliant in the ad for your house, Chip.


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[tcsbiz]

Here in WI it is a screened-in porch.

If the screens are replaced with windows, it's called an addition.

 

[GSCaupling]

SamBones Apparently I'm only upscale when I weigh myself. I had to look up "lanai"

In the south, "screened-in porch" is likely to invoke fond memories of lemonade at Grandma's house on a lazy summer afternoon, or sitting up late talking (formerly drinking) with friends and listening to the crickets chirp.

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