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Where somebody is, for example: "They're down the Cape today." Sometimes prounounced "downna," as in "Wanna go downna Boston with me?"

Alicia from Meffid recalls: "When I worked in Boston City Hall, I was in room 601, which is the City Clerk's office. My friend Galen and I used to fall out laughing when people said, 'Oh, you work up the Clerk's?' And to make matters worse, the City Council was on the fifth floor, so in the course of a day you might hear THIS gem, 'Oh, you work up the Clerk's? My cousin works down the Council. He works down Dappa's. You musta seenim? Kid widda Ahmy-like haiya do? He's a gootlookin' kid.'"

In December, 2023, an obituary for lifelong Everett resident Phyllis Harper noted "She was born on February 4, 1940 down the Village, and lived there until her passing."

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Its not just Boston. In Jersey we go "down the shore".... infact, even when you're there and your friends call and ask where you are, you say, "I'm down the shore." (Unless you're actually from down the shore, then you call it the beach)

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I actually remember my friends and I saying we were "gonna go up the Cape." Even though we knew the Cape was south/southeast of us, we still couldn't stop staying it. But we would also "go down the park".

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