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LAS14

(13,783 posts) Thu Dec 8, 2016, 08:41 PM Dec 2016

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Help me find the word!!

Not "piquant", not "poignant."

But what is a New Yorker writer doing identifying Chappaqua as Upstate New York??????

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/i-am-hillary-clinton-fabled-elusive-forest-dweller-of-upstate-new-york

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Help me find the word!! (Original Post) LAS14 Dec 2016 OP

To the New Yorker, anything north of the Bronx is upstate. FarCenter Dec 2016 #1

How Provincial shadowmayor Dec 2016 #2

Parochial - but "upstate" is anything north of the Tappan Zee... jberryhill Dec 2016 #3

FarCenter

(19,429 posts)

1. To the New Yorker, anything north of the Bronx is upstate.

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Thu Dec 8, 2016, 08:48 PM

Dec 2016

shadowmayor

(1,325 posts)

2. How Provincial

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Thu Dec 8, 2016, 09:10 PM

Dec 2016

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)

3. Parochial - but "upstate" is anything north of the Tappan Zee...

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Thu Dec 8, 2016, 10:32 PM

Dec 2016

...for those from "the city".

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