Don White wrote:

Henry Blackmoore wrote in message
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see ** http://www.holmesmaritime.com/port.htm **



You live in the Halifax area?

Yowser.




Born & bred on the peninsula and that's where I have my home .




That's always been one of my favorite phrase twists, and almost everyone
uses it.
We're the result of our mothers being bred, as it were, then we are
born, and then we are reared. "Bred," as an expression for "raised," is
way down on the definition list. Language evolution always is interesting.