Date: Thu, 21 Apr 1994 00:49:30 -0700

From: Rudy Troike RTROIKE[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ARIZVMS.BITNET

Subject: Bring/Take



Calling all late-night linguists:

A colleague of mine has a visitor from New Jersey who baked some

cookies, and when she was complimented on them, she told the friends who

had come over and been served them, "Bring some home with you." The

cookie-eaters were much taken aback by this usage, to hear tell the

tale, but my colleague, whose wife is from New York, said that she also

said this rather than "Take some home with you". He speculates that it

may be a Yiddishism, which is plausible, since German uses directional

verbs differently from English. This may be a well-documented

regionalism, but I had not encountered it before, and wondered if anyone

knew anything definite about it.

--Rudy Troike (rtroike[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ccit.arizona.edu)