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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I say dinner. My mom calls it supper and she is from Boston and is highly over educated![/quote]

16:21 here (pp also with a mom from Boston who says supper)

Were your mom's parents very educated (my maternal grandparents were not--grandfather didn't even graduated high school and was a police officer with the city of Boston, Grandmother graduated from high school but that's it)?
What part of Boston did your mom grow up in?  My mom grew up in Dorchester--her parents were from South Boston.

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I have no idea where she grew up in Boston, just Boston:-)

Her mother was a daughter of Irish Immigrants that were straight off the boat and her father was a Austrian Soldier, fresh off the boat after WW2 and they were a bi-lingual home. I know her father was drafted to the German Army when he was 16 and served 3 years and nearly starved to death on the Russian Front, a miracle that he survived that that I'm here today....with that said, I would say he might have graduated high school at best. That did not stop him from becoming a widely successful American business owner and is still alive and retired filthy rich.  My mother had a pretty affluent upbringing, hence her opportunity to be highly over-educated at fine New England institutions. Her mother even graduated college, which is quite an accomplishment for a daughter of Depression Era Irish Immigrants. I doubt they were New England society, especially considering her father's ethnicity, but they were most definitely not anything close to working class Boston.

[b]She still says supper and calls the grocery store "Market" and calls PJs jammies. All of which annoy me[/b].[/quote]

Why does that annoy you?  We say "jammies", and the store is often called the "market", and the liquor store often called the "Package store" or "packy".  Not sure why that would annoy anyone.  [/quote]

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