Loose talk

[sagehen]

"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
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I haven't heard this for a good many years, but it was fairly common in
Nebraska when I was a kid (30s, 40s).
A. Murie