Heard on The Judges: "over GEOGRAPHICAL LOC"

[Wilson Gray]

These uses of "up home, down home" are new to me. But "over home"
seems fine, though not necessarily with so specific a meaning, of
course. ;-)

-Wilson

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 9:50 PM, Dave Hause <dwhause at jobe.net> wrote:
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>  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
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>  From: "Wilson Gray" <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
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>  "He was with his friends _over north_."
>
>  I've never heard this type of locution in the wild before.
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>  -Wilson
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