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Originally Posted by honeychile
MysticCat81, I don't know what part of the South you're in, but I was raised right. 
I've never heard of a person who was told that they were reared or brought up right - not in the South, at least. Maybe it's a regional thing? |
The really Old South.
Family in Virginia, the Carolinas and Georgia for a
long time.
My mother-in-law would actually correct my wife and my sister-in-law if they talked about "raising" kids. "You raise hogs," she would say. It was considered somewhat uncouth to talk about "raising" children as though they were farm animals ("kids" notwithstanding).
I think it's really a generational thing. I hear "raising children" all the time now, but rarely from anyone over 65 or 70.
As for "brought up," I still hear that all the time, as in "His momma brought him up right," or "Where were you brought up?" (Although "Where are you from?" is more common for the latter -- everyone knows that the answer is not where you've lived for the last 30 years, but where you lived for the first 18 years,
i.e., where you were brought up.)