Me: Do you know where my brown shoes are?
Link: Oh, yeah. They're over here.
Me: Okay, I never would have looked there.
Link: Well, it's where I keep my cellar shoes.
Me: First of all, they're not my cellar shoes because I never go down there. Second of all, we don't have a cellar, we have a basement.
Link: What's the difference?
Me: I don't know. I just don't like the word cellar. It's too "New England".... like pocketbook and packie*. I hate the word pocketbook.
Link: No, if it was a cellah, it would be too New England.
Me: Good point.
*A pocketbook is pretty easy to figure out...it's what the rest of the country would call a purse. A packie is a package store. Still don't know what that means? A package store is a liquor store. So if you need alcohol you have to head to the packie. These New Englanders are kind of crazy that way.
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The others don't bother me as I was raised saying them, I HATE "packie" though, it's a Mass thing and still confuses me. But it could be worse, you could be in Rhode Island, land of the "bubblers".
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