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If you use 'pocketbook,' where are you from?
I have a theory here. Let's see if it pans out.
I agree with everything that muddled said. You should listen to her. -ESDReturns
Re: If you use 'pocketbook,' where are you from?
And yes, I'm still feeling like a loser! I do say "bag" often too, if that makes me less grandma-ish.
LOL! Born in 1912.
Based on DL and Mags and DH, I would like to say that this is a northeastern thing. OF course, you somehow escaped this nonsense, ESD.
Totally not. I've never heard anyone call it a pocketbook here unless they were old.
The only other people I have ever heard use pocketbook are my grandmother and my great aunts-- all from NJ.
eta- of course, they were also alive in 1950. Great aunt died last year at the age of 99.
orig from New York State.
St Louis.
I have tried to call it a purse, or a handbag, but those just sound stilted.
Born and raised in NYC!
and im old as dirt!
My theory just might be right on. I'm so smart.
Smart or smaht?
It depends. Where are you from?
I'm originally from Maine, and my mom, grandmother, all my aunts call their purses a "pockabook".
My family is from the NE Philly suburbs. We all say "pockabook." It refers to a purse, usually of mid-size.
I'm in a Communication grad program and was an English teacher. It seems that a lot of these odd constructions originate from large immigrant populations that were prominent often around the turn of the 20th cent.
For example, all over the world in places where the Irish/Scottish emigrated to English-speaking regions (US, New Zeland, Austrailia, etc.) whole regions will drop the "to be" after the word needs, as in "The car needs cleaning." or "The pasta needs stiring."
According to Grammar Girl, the reason for this is because the mother tongue did not require "to be" after the Gaelic form of "needs."
Something similar is probably the case for "pocketbook."