
HOUSE & HOME
May 26, 2016
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26/05/16 What’s the Difference between HOUSE and HOME?
House is an emotionally neutral word: it just refers to a particular type of building.
Home is used mostly in more personal senses: it is the place somebody lives in, and can express the idea of emotional attachment to a place.
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There are some horrible new houses in our neighborhood.
I lived there for six years, but I never really felt it was my home.