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On Nov 14, 2007, at 11:07 AM, LACTNET automatic digest system wrote:

> I have noticed that more =
> moms=20
> are comfortable with referring to their breasts as boobs than tits. Is 
> th=
> at a=20
> regionalism to the Eastern USA?

I would say that it also applies in midwestern USA, where "boobs" is 
just slang, but "tits" is vulgar.

  I nearly always call them breasts professionally, but sometimes if we 
are being silly, I might talk about our crazy boobs that can't count to 
one or something like that.  Only in the appropriate context, of 
course.

Lynn in MO

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