What sounds better an apartment or flat

the tenement comment was copied and pasted from the dictionary and the comment re apartment was said 'tongue in cheek'...

Just deleted my response .... to save GNHQ from having to do so

What year was your. Dictionary published

Dollie such a description of tenement would be historic - hardly applies nowadays.

The word does conjure-up images of slums, perhaps that's why it isn't much used these days.

@agus...it was the freeline dictionary updated in 2009 ...

Happen one needs to check these things by passing them through a reality filter?

Glasgow tenement slums were pulled down in 1900 by The City Improvement Trust and high quality sandstone tenements were built to replace them.

These facts are easily sourced.

Tenement originally meant holding. I have copies of wills made by my ancestors in the 7th Century, where they leave their "tenement" of house, barns, land etc to their descendents. In a city there would later be a terrace of apartments built on the holding, which were indeed rented out to tenants. but only some of them descended into slum dwellings as they aged and were neglected. There are desirable apartments by the hundred.

Here is one for sale at the moment - the first one to appear in my srapid search, there are doubtless swisher ones too. www.gspc.co.uk/property/214033/

elegran I did wonder that as in tenure and tenancy etc.

And tenacity and tenacious - that has just made me think of Tena Lady, which does hold it in - wonder if that was the reason for the name?

Elegran Those thoughts should keep you occupied today! How many derivations can you get.

"Tenders" as in a coal tender on a steam train?
Tent?

I have just seen that I missed out a little "1" which made it seem as though I have wills from the 7th Century. No such luck, just the 17th.

I did wonder Elegran! still impressive though. I have discovered my ancestors were tax collectors from Perth!