Term for a roof pitch viewed from inside (Image included) - Stack Exchange Failure! (1 Viewer)

[Uncle Gizmo]

My spell checker objected to the word skeeling. I'd got the wrong spelling, the spelling should be:- "skeiling" https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/skeiling ... I wasted about half an hour trying to find the correct spelling and in the process found this posted on stack exchange.

Term for a roof pitch viewed from inside (Image included)

Term for a roof pitch viewed from inside (Image included)

I wonder what an English speaking person would call a roof pitch viewed from inside the house like seen in the image below: For example, how would I describe the location of the desk beneath the w...

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So I tried to sign in to to tell them to correct word, but I don't have enough points. If anyone has got a usable account on stackexchange, then I would be grateful if you could let them know what the correct term is.

 

[Steve R.]

Sorry, but this is one obscure forum that I have not run across while "driving" the internet desert..
The question was also posted 5 years ago.
Making it even more obscure, the Wikipedia page wrote that the word skeiling: "Seems to be local to Sussex, England."
Thought: maybe you could suggest this word for a game show such as Jeopardy or Wheel of Fortune.

 

[Uncle Gizmo]

I first learnt the word 40 years ago from an Irishman working in the UK as a plasterer. I was his labourer. I was working in Newbury Berkshire on a property called "41 Greenham" at the time, and I'm from Wiltshire!

I also recall the SEB turning up one day on the site to connect the electric. The SEB electrician dug up the cable, spliced a new piece of cable on it, which was attached to the electricity meter. H did it all "live"! The last process was the cable joint was put inside some sort of plastic housing and he poured in Molten bitumen to seal it.