Re: Re: Pub examination - Three Cups - tonight (Weds 19 Sept)

[Peter Haworth]

On Wed, 19 Sep 2001 09:51:20 -0400, David H. Adler wrote:
> This discussion is reminding me of the time a friend of mine called me
> "provincial" because people who live in NYC tend to call anything more
> than a county or so north "upstate"...

This would seem to imply that "upstate" (a word I have never grasped the
meaning of, living in the UK) just means "north". Why then, do we never hear
"downstate", "leftstate" or "rightstate"?

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        Peter Haworth   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To err is human; to moo, bovine.