bring vs. take

[Ronald Butters]

Such arrogance!

No, it was a Bostonian from Natick, b1938, BA Boston University 1960, PhD University of Iowa 1966, now a retired university professor. WM, parents born in Italy, working class background. We were friends in graduate school, and one of the sources of our amusement was how our uses of "take" and "bring" did not match up.

On Feb 12, 2011, at 3:16 PM, David A. Daniel wrote:

> 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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> Sent from my iPad
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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
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>>> 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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