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[quote=Anonymous][b][quote=Anonymous]Pocketbook is a southern term.[/quote][/b] No, it's old English. My grandmother (not from South) used it: Pocketbook was originally just that: a small book that could be carried in the pocket. The OED shows that by 1685 it was understood also to be a "book for notes, memoranda, etc., intended to be carried in the pocket; a notebook; also, a book-like case of leather or the like, having compartments for papers, bank-notes, bills, etc." In the last meaning the DAE attests its use in the United States since 1816.[/quote]
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