Minnesota "come with"

[Barbara Need]

>John, I assume you mean "come with"/"go with" in which
>no "object" follows "with"?
>
>I discuss the locution (which I identify as a Chicago
>phenomenon) and some (possibly) parallel constructions very
>briefly in American Speech 72 (1997): 224.  Nothing
>definitive, though.
>
>--Charlie

Also used in Milwaukee. I was told it was from German.

Barbara

Barbara Need
UChicago

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