Loose talk

[Patti Kurtz]

"Borrow" for "lend" is very common here in ND.  My students say it all
the  time; recently, a student form my linguistics course asked a fellow
teacher, "Can you borrow (lend) me a pencil?"  She was immediately
startled because she hadn't even realized she used that expression
though we'd talked about it in class.

Patti Kurtz

Wilson Gray wrote:

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>Heard on the tube:
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>So, I decided to borrow [i.e. lend, loan] him the $2,000.
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>FWIW, I don't think that I've heard this before. I'm more accustomed to
>hearing the reverse: "lend, loan" used in place of "borrow."
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>-Wilson Gray
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