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What about "safe home"? Is that a NY expression? The first time I ever heard it was when I was working with some NYC natives. I had never heard it in my entire life so not sure if it was just a couple people using it or if it's a regional thing.
As in, when you're all leaving an event or a party late in the evening, you say "Safe home" instead of "Get home safely" or "Safe travels."
I googled it and apparently it's a translation from the Irish Slán abhaile so maybe it's only popular with Irish immigrants and their descendants? The woman who I recall saying it to me was not of Irish ancestry but was married to someone with an Irish name, and she had grown up in Woodside.
I didn't know that was regional. I always said pocketbook, and recently someone not from this area was quiet for a minute when I said it, and then he said, "Do you mean your purse?"
One grandmother said purse. I don't think I heard handbag until I was an adult. Maybe a teenager.
That's amazing. I thought everyone used the term or at least know the term, "pocketbook". lol.
A friend of mine from the Bronx whose name was Earl swore to me that, when he was once having car trouble, an acquaintance told him
"Oyl, you need to change your earl"
A New York-ism common in the four outer boroughs was to say, when heading into Manhattan, "I'm going into the city" (as if Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, and Staten Island weren't part of NYC!)
I've been out of the Bronx for 40 years but still have not completely lost the Noo Yawk accent, although it's certainly less pronounced than among my friends who have never left the area. I think the NYPD and FDNY are still strongholds for the traditional accent, at least to judge by listening to the average firefighter or police officer.
I think "fugghedaboutit" has been replaced by "no problem." I think people still say "forget about it" or "fugghedaboutit." I say some variation of it all the time.
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