Maine is _down_ east of Massachusetts.

[Laurence Horn]

On Aug 18, 2011, at 2:46 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

> Everyone's familiar with that one. I've just heard a Bostonian say
> that he doesn't like to go to Rhode Island, even to see his
> girlfriend, because
>
> "There's nothing to do, _up_ there."
>
I haven't heard that one.  Besides heading "down east" (northward) in Maine, there's also the lower Cape (Cape Cod, e.g. Provincetown at the very northernmost tip) vs. the upper Cape, the latter to the south of the former.  But I hadn't come across references to RI as "up" from Boston.

LH

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