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What is the difference between a house burning up and a house burning down?

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Posted - January 3, 2018
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  • 3191
    When it's your house...you aren't concerned with semantics. :(
      January 3, 2018 4:30 PM MST
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  • 2658
    The flames burn up before it has burned down to ruins...
      January 3, 2018 5:06 PM MST
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  • 13395
    Fire starts in the attic it burns the house down;  starting in the basement it burns up the house. 
      January 3, 2018 5:29 PM MST
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  • 17596
    Who is speaking.  I would not say either because I don't use prepositions at the end of sentences. 

    The house burned.
      January 3, 2018 6:15 PM MST
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  • 44617
    Reporters do that a lot.
      January 4, 2018 8:37 AM MST
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  • 1713
    I guess it's burning down when it starts caving in on itself and it's burning up when it's still standing but on fire.
      January 3, 2018 9:35 PM MST
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  • 22891
    not much
      January 4, 2018 4:53 PM MST
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