Make/take a left/right, etc.

[sagehen]

>I have both, and introspection fails about the selectivity device
>selecting or preferring one or the other. (Good thing; otherwise us
>quantitatively-oriented sociolinguists wouldn't have squat to do).
>
>dInIs
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I also have both, but feel that selection is a matter of register: depends
on whom I'm talking to.  "Take" feels just slightly more hip; "make," more
formal.  If giving directions to a stranger, might also say "make" to a
woman, "take," to a man.
A. Murie