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by wvenable
3054 days ago
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West coast Canada we also "back east" -- it's the linguistic opposite of "out west". The underlying source is the idea everyone is somehow "from" the east, and they (or their ancestors) at one point moved "out west", but if they were to return, it would be to go "back east." |
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