120 UK police investigates because a politician said she was 'born and bred' in her hometown. (twitter.com) posted 263 days ago by horstshort 263 days ago by horstshort +120 / -0 38 comments share 38 comments share save hide report block hide replies
Born and "bred" is an odd thing to say, instead of raised. Not enough for any of this obviously, but I'd certainly rib somebody for saying.
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=born+and+bred%2C+born+and+raised&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3
This is actually an interesting graph. There is definitely a decline in the phrase thanks to the pussificaion of language.
That is very interesting, I appreciate you showing it.
Somedays you don't know that something you assume is universal is only localized until its right in front of you.