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Down

Where somebody is, for example: "They're down the Cape today." Sometimes prounounced "downna," as in "Wanna go downna Boston with me?"

Alicia from Meffid recalls: "When I worked in Boston City Hall, I was in room 601, which is the City Clerk's office. My friend Galen and I used to fall out laughing when people said, 'Oh, you work up the Clerk's?' And to make matters worse, the City Council was on the fifth floor, so in the course of a day you might hear THIS gem, 'Oh, you work up the Clerk's? My cousin works down the Council. He works down Dappa's. You musta seenim? Kid widda Ahmy-like haiya do? He's a gootlookin' kid.'"

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Its not just Boston. In Jersey we go "down the shore".... infact, even when you're there and your friends call and ask where you are, you say, "I'm down the shore." (Unless you're actually from down the shore, then you call it the beach)

Becky Watts on April 22, 2007 10:57 PM.

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