Why do people say "born and bred in XXXXX" ?

[OAITW r.2.0]

Wouldn't it be more correct to say, from a linear existential perspective, - "bred and born in XXXXX"?

But of course neither phrase is provably correct....who knows where the bredding took place (the bornning place being pretty well documented).

Thoughts?

Mods: Please delete if this topic has been bred to death.

[TexasProgresive]

1. Sort of like lock and load

[OAITW r.2.0]

5. Exactly!

And so on topic!

[brush]

8. Born and raised is the term I hear most often.

[TexasProgresive]

12. Yes! and for the snotty, "Born and reared."

Something about animals are raised and children are reared. Some really fine semantics going on there.

[Xipe Totec]

2. bred in the sense of being raised or educated. nt

[jberryhill]

3. Where I was born / where I did most of my growing up

[Glorfindel]

4. Good Heaven! said Scrooge, clasping his hands together, as he looked about him.

“I was bred in this place. I was a boy here!”

[OAITW r.2.0]

6. Perhaps Scrooge got something right!

sequentially speaking.

[True Dough]

7. Welcome to the DU!

Would you be so kind as to explain your username to me? It reminds me of a customized licence plate. Sometimes I can figure 'em out, and sometimes I can't. In this case I'm perplexed and curious.

[diva77]

9. I think OAITW means "old and in the way" nt

[True Dough]

10. Thank you!

And diva stands for "dispensing information & valuable assistance"?

[diva77]

11. LOL!!!!

[OAITW r.2.0]

13. Very good guess!