I'm from Boston and I can explain this one to you...the older folks in the Boston neighborhoods, especially South Boston ("Southie") and Dorchester ("Dot") refer to a party as a "time," as in, "We had a time for Sully down at the Elks hall on Saturday when he retired from the fire department." Like that. I don't know how that usage came about...but people of, say, 50 years old and up will refer to any big shindig as a "time."
I have no idea what Southie "time" or Southie Time might mean, but evidently it's always going on. Thanks, Eileen.
I'm from Boston and I can explain this one to you...the older folks in the Boston neighborhoods, especially South Boston ("Southie") and Dorchester ("Dot") refer to a party as a "time," as in, "We had a time for Sully down at the Elks hall on Saturday when he retired from the fire department." Like that. I don't know how that usage came about...but people of, say, 50 years old and up will refer to any big shindig as a "time."
ReplyDeleteahhhh. Those quotation marks are kind of appropriate then. I am glad I posted it anyway, because of that interesting tidbit.
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