_Take_ v. _bring_

[Wilson Gray]

On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
> Well, "bring" is "cause to come", after all.

Isn't "cause to come" more transparently, _fetch_?

That meaning perhaps historically underlies the use of "fetching" in
sentences like,

"My! You look quite fetching, my dear!"

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