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mredhead | 10:41 Fri 19th Nov 2004 | Phrases & Sayings
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does anyone know where the saying "neck of the woods "comes from ?
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I think I heard this answer on a TV programme or something.  I think it goes back a long, long way when most of England was forest, and people didn't travel far so didn't really know place names for areas, I guess.  It is just a phrase to identify where somebody comes from.  i.e. "is that your neck of the woods?".  That's what I remember anyway.
12:17 Fri 19th Nov 2004
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Click http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=19991129 for the answer.

 

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