There are a lot of terms that are regional.
A knit cap can be a ski cap, stocking cap, a touque, or a toboggan depending where in the US you are, for example. In my experience, Pennsylvania has the weirdest terms for common objects: gummies, bubblers, macadam (rubber bands, water fountains, and rock and chip roads, FYI).
Regardless, I thought that a wake vs a visitation was either a regional thing (where I’m from they are visitations as they were down south in a bunch of places) or a religious thing (Catholics and Lutherans had wakes, Protestants had visitations).
Turns out I was wrong on both counts: a wake is with the deceased there and an open casket; a visitation may or may not have the deceased on site. If the deceased is there, either there’s a closed casket or cremated remains in an urn.
Not sure it makes a difference, but now I know.
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