I always call it my pocketbook. Old habits are hard to kill. Dot ooo---This Email Scanned for Virus---ooo by ooo--- Norton Anti-Virus---ooo ----- Original Message ----- From: <Up2Nutrix@aol.com> To: <NJ-MEMORIES-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 11:38 PM Subject: [NJ-Memories] Re: zink for sink, > In a message dated 10/4/2002 9:14:41 PM Mountain Standard Time, > NJ-MEMORIES-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > > > > I still call it a Zink, and call our fridge an ice box, and I'm from > > Jersey. I guess it's to late for me to change now. > > > > The other day at work I identified a Northeasterner because she called her > purse a "pocketbook." I hadn't heard that term used that way since we left > NJ, over a quarter century ago. The lady, it turned out, was from Nyack, NY . > . . almost as close to NJ as you can get without actually being there. > > Doris in Colorado (Up2Nutrix@aol.com) > "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." -- > Jim Elliot, missionary and martyr > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >