Heard on The Judges: "over GEOGRAPHICAL LOC"
Dave Hause
dwhause at JOBE.NET
Wed May 14 01:50:34 UTC 2008
My father (b 1912, in the Poconos, PA) used some like this: "down home" was
his maternal grandmother's, down hill and across the road; "up home" was
(AFAIR) his own house; and "over home" was his paternal grandfather's, two
or three miles away.
Dave Hause, dwhause at jobe.net
Waynesville, MO
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wilson Gray" <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
"He was with his friends _over north_."
I've never heard this type of locution in the wild before.
-Wilson
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