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Location: Chapel Hill, NC, formerly NoVA and Phila
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Hackwriter, if you go to the shore for a beach trip, you're still NJ at heart. When you start going to the coast, you've become a local.
All in fun because the beach/shore/coast is fun.
I grew up going "down the shore" but I only use that for going to the Jersey Shore. If I go to the Delaware/Maryland/VA/NC beaches, I say "I'm going to the beach." I think it's only Jersey folks and Southeastern PA folks who say "shore" and it generally is just reserved for the Jersey Shore towns. I've never said I'm going to the Coast, though. Jersey is "the Shore" and the rest of the places are "the beach."
I grew up going "down the shore" but I only use that for going to the Jersey Shore. If I go to the Delaware/Maryland/VA/NC beaches, I say "I'm going to the beach." I think it's only Jersey folks and Southeastern PA folks who say "shore" and it generally is just reserved for the Jersey Shore towns. I've never said I'm going to the Coast, though. Jersey is "the Shore" and the rest of the places are "the beach."
This. I spend the summers with my grandparents in NJ going down the shore. Here, it's always been the beach. I feel a new thread coming on.
Also, after reading about dawgs and cawfee here, I can't stopping channeling Mike Meyer's Linda Richman on Coffee Talk...where we tawlk about cawfee, dawgs, and dawters....I'm getting a little verklempt. Much to my kids dismay, I may be speaking like this the rest of the evening.
Also, after reading about dawgs and cawfee here, I can't stopping channeling Mike Meyer's Linda Richman on Coffee Talk...where we tawlk about cawfee, dawgs, and dawters....I'm getting a little verklempt. Much to my kids dismay, I may be speaking like this the rest of the evening.
Haha. My accent isn't nearly that bad...except for the dawgs part...
I grew up going "down the shore" but I only use that for going to the Jersey Shore. If I go to the Delaware/Maryland/VA/NC beaches, I say "I'm going to the beach." I think it's only Jersey folks and Southeastern PA folks who say "shore" and it generally is just reserved for the Jersey Shore towns. I've never said I'm going to the Coast, though. Jersey is "the Shore" and the rest of the places are "the beach."
I say coast sometimes, but it's more geographic, like the Coastal Plain. If I actually have plans and am going to the beach I say the beach. Coast and coastal are definitely doable in NC, though. Beach is for the vacay and is toes in the sand, waves crashing on the sand. Coast is like the wetlands, sounds, beach — the whole shebang.
Location: The place where the road & the sky collide
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I grew up going "down the shore" but I only use that for going to the Jersey Shore. If I go to the Delaware/Maryland/VA/NC beaches, I say "I'm going to the beach." I think it's only Jersey folks and Southeastern PA folks who say "shore" and it generally is just reserved for the Jersey Shore towns. I've never said I'm going to the Coast, though. Jersey is "the Shore" and the rest of the places are "the beach."
Don't forget that many good Philadelphians will tell you that they plan to go don the shore.
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