Interesting sentence ...
Joanne M. Despres
jdespres at MERRIAM-WEBSTER.COM
Tue Nov 22 21:55:46 UTC 2005
This reminds me a bit of a colloquial use of "with" with the object
elided that I've noticed in the speech of some people within the
past few years. It usually occurs in questions, such as:
"You're coming to the party on Saturday, right? Is Jen coming
with?"
Joanne
On 22 Nov 2005, at 15:16, Wilson Gray wrote:
> to me, anyway:
>
> "A friend was with and she drove me home,"
>
> spoken by a woman from Illinois. Unfortunately, there was no context to
> indicate where in Illinois she was from.
> A WAG is northwest Illinois.
> --
> -Wilson Gray
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