to leave = 'to leave a bequest to'

[victor steinbok]

Isn't this more like "leave in place", which is a variant of leave==place?
(i.e., I will include them in my will) Without further context, it's hard to
tell.

VS-)

On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> The Salvation Army is running a commercial urging you to leave them your
> money when you're dead.  An old guy tells an off-camera interviewer, "I am
> choosing to leave them in my will. I have chosen to leave them in my will."
>
> No context suggests (or, since this a TV commercial, ever would suggest)
> that he'd ever thought about cutting the SA out of his will. Thus "leave,"
> as above.
>
> JL

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