Call By

[Scott Swanson]

This morning, I heard a newsreader on a Canadian radio station (Calgary)
say that census-takers would be "calling by" - which I understood from
other context to mean that the census-takers would be visiting
householders at their homes. Is this term common across Canada? Anywhere
in the US? Britain? (Oh, that's right, they would say the census-takers
would be "knocking up" the householders, much to the general delight of us
Yanks...) Here (Montana) we would say "stopping by" or "coming by".

Scott Swanson