Regionalism's

[7rider]

We say "go to town" when we want to go to the biggest city nearby, even though we live in a town.

Gloucester, Massachusetts (northeast of Boston) is on a little spit of a cape that sticks out into the Atlantic. There is a highway, Route 128, that connects it with nearby towns and the main interstate (I-95). Locals refer to going "up the line" when they plan to make the trek off-Cape (gasp! ) and visit nearby Peabody, Danvers, Salem or where ever.

I grew up in Connecticut, and when I was in Massachusetts, decided to have a "tag sale" to unload some household stuff. I plastered signs all over the place - even on my car's windshield - pointing the way to my tag sale. I actually had folks show up and ask me what a "tag sale" was. In Gloucester (and MA in general), they are "yard sales."