• To receive the latest "Travels with Becky" blog entries by email, enter your email address here:

    Delivered by FeedBurner

Where's Becky?

  • Islandport Press is a dynamic, award-winning publisher dedicated to stories rooted in the essence and sensibilities of New England. We strive to capture and explore the grit, heart, beauty, and infectious spirit of the region by telling tales that can be appreciated by readers, dreamers, and adventurers everywhere.

« But still in the phone book | Main | Views from heaven »

October 18, 2010

Comments

Feed You can follow this conversation by subscribing to the comment feed for this post.

Lynne Bishop

Congratulations on your new book, Becky! I look forward to reading it!

I don't know that this is a Yankee phrase per se, but flatlanders who move here insist they haven't heard it where they came from: "All set". As in when I'm working at the library circulation desk and a patron comes with their items to borrow, I'll say "Are you all set?". Do you think it's a Yankee phrase?

I love the title of your new book and wish you all the best with it.

Rebecca Rule


Hi Lynne:
I think it is a yankee phrase, but then I've never been anywhere but New England. A waitress alerted me to its yankeeness -- saying when she first started working in NH (having come from away) she didn't know what customers meant when they said they were all set.
It's in my dictionary under A. :)
Becky

The comments to this entry are closed.

About this blog

  • cover

    Rebecca Rule, author of Live Free and Eat Pie: A Storyteller’s Guide to New Hampshire, spends a lot of time on the road, traveling to her performances throughout the Granite State and beyond. She loves her home state, meeting lots of great people and visiting both new and familiar places. She shares stories that she finds with her this blog. So please "join" her on the road and check back often.

About Becky

  • Becky has lived all her life (so far) in New Hampshire. She has written several other popular books set in her home state, including "The Best Revenge," a collection of short stories that was named one of the five Essential New Hampshire Books by New Hampshire Magazine, and "Could Have Been Worse: True Stories, Embellishments and Outright Lies." However, she is probably best known for her live storytelling events, many sponsored by the New Hampshire Humanities Council.

    Comments? Questions? Send e-mail to Becky Rule.