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Down Cape

North on the Cape.

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Close, but Cape Codders refer to it as the Lower Cape, for the northern part, mid-cape for Hyannis/Yarmouth, and Upper Cape for Bourne/Falmouth.

Jared on November 10, 2005 09:13 PM.

you go down the cape but when going into Boston you say I'm heading intown

Mark on March 17, 2006 01:42 AM.

I grew up in Sandwich, where everything except Bourne, Mashpee and Falmouth is down Cape. It's a direction, not a place.

Most of the directional bits seem to be simply eliding a preposition: "going down [to] the Cape," or [to the] cella, or whereva, or "in[to] Town."

Tom on May 26, 2008 02:03 PM.

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