"bring Route 40"

[Joel S. Berson]

At 8/26/2008 07:42 PM, Arnold M. Zwicky wrote:
>On Aug 26, 2008, at 11:52 AM, Doug Harris wrote:
>
>>'Sounds illogical to me: If you are following a route, or proceeding
>>along the course of a route, how can you be said to be 'bringing' it?
>>Of course by that logic, 'take route 40' doesn't sound too logical,
>>either.
>>Go, as they say, figure.
>
>of course, this is not a matter of logic, but of idiom.
>
>presumably an extension of other "bring" for "take" uses.

Well, in the 18th century they used to say "carry" when they meant "bring".

Joel

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