"bring Route 40"

[Douglas G. Wilson]

Here ...

http://www.freelists.org/archives/seniortech/11-2006/msg00022.html

... is "take the bus or bring the bus home".

Note "home".

"Bring" is an option exactly where "come" might be used (instead of
"go"), I think.

Where is this from? I don't know, but at a guess maybe it's from
wherever somebody says "subway" for a grass strip between the street and
sidewalk.

I've lived quite a few years in western PA, also quite a few in WI,
etc., and I don't recognize the odd idiom.

Maybe it's not recorded (much) because it's very recent, or because it's
very infrequent (Google prevalence doesn't seem high compared to other
seemingly unusual variants).

-- Doug Wilson

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