bring vs. take

[David A. Daniel]

Must have been a Bostonian from New York.
DAD

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FWIW, I have also heard this from a Bostonian as well.

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On Feb 12, 2011, at 12:31 AM, Rebecca Shapiro <shapiro.becca at GMAIL.COM>
wrote:

> My Midwestern ex-husband used to make fun of me for not distinguishing
> between "bring" and "take" and also for pronouncing "kwaffee" and
"ahrunge"
> (transliteration?). Once we moved East, I got to remind him that I no
longer
> talked funny, but he did. What you say about "bring" and "take" being a NY
> metro thing reminds me that my grandparents and their siblings from
Brighton
> Beach also were improper in that way. Now I don't feel so bad.
>
> Rebecca Alice Shapiro (&*)
>
> Date:    Fri, 11 Feb 2011 17:48:02 -0200
>
>> From:    "David A. Daniel" <dad at POKERWIZ.COM>
>> Subject: Re: Bring vs. Take
>>
>> This is typical of New York and extended environs. Ex: other day, during
an
>> episode of TAAHM, my daughter said "I wonder where Chuck Lorre is from".
I
>> told her, "Gotta be New York because he always has Charlie and the others
>> saying bring instead of take." Sure enough, he's from Long Guyland.
Anyway,
>> the anecdotals are legion and I've never seen it fail. Family and friends
>> in
>> places like Chicago, Houston, San Francisco and L.A. don't get it wrong
(I
>> listen for this sort of thing), even those who tend to make other
mistakes
>> of the "should of went" sort. Hint to George: If you can't say the word
>> "here" in the sentence, as in "bring it here" you should probably be
using
>> "take". For example, Charlie, at home, and being from California, would
>> never say to Allan, "I have to bring my Mercedes to the shop." (But that
is
>> exactly what a New Yorker would say.) However, the mechanic on the phone
at
>> the shop would say, "You have to bring your Mercedes [here] to the shop,"
>> which we know is correct because "here" fits into the sentence.
>> DAD
>>
>>
>
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