Date:    Tue, 5 May 1998 15:20:36 -0600
<br>From:    charles fritz juengling <cjuengling[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]STCLOUDSTATE.EDU>
<br>Subject: Re: go with
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<br>>I have a student interested in study the expression "go with" (without an
<br>>object) as in, "I'm going to the store.  Do you want to go with?"
<br>>
<br>>Does anyone know of studies on the subject?  Would you use that expression
<br>>yourself?
<br>Check Dialect Notes vol 2 part 2 page 118.  This is found in the mouth of
<br>nearly every Minnesotan.  It is attributed to German "Gehst du mit?' or
<br>Norwegian "Vil du gaa med?"  I have never heard it anywhere outside of
<br>Minnesota and my wife's family in Oregon.  However, my father-in-law is
<br>from MN, so my wife's siblings must have gotten it from him.  I don't think
<br>it's an Oregonism.  BTW, South African English also has 'go with' where it
<br>is attributed to Dutch/Afrikaans 'meegaan.'  I had never heard of 'go with'
<br>used outside MN or S Af (and my wife's family in Oregon) until the
<br>reference to Trenton and Long Island.
<br>I would never use it.
<br>
<br>Fritz Juengling
<br>Foreign Languages and Literature Department
<br>St. Cloud State University
<br>St. Cloud, Minnesota
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