[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: English around the world/around Australia

[Aberforth's Goat]

Trina wrote,

> They do this in Chicago, too, presumably for the same reasons.
Being
> a down-stater from Central Illinois, this *really* bugged me
when I
> first heard it from Chicago-raised friends in college. Soon,
however,
> I picked it up myself, much to the dismay of my mom.  I've now
> dropped the habit since I now live in South Carolina, but every
once
> in a while, I catch myself using the form.

How odd!

In my last post I mentioned a Canadian who used that turn of
phrase. At the time I knew him, I was living in Chicago - but
"coming with" was *not* standard there, at least at the time. (I
was about 9, and it was about 21 years ago, so things may have
changed since then!)

I'll have to ask my dad, also a Chicagoan, if that phrase is
commonly used in his neck of the suburbs.

Baaaaaa!

Aberforth's Goat (a.k.a. Mike Gray)
_______________________

"Of course, I'm not entirely sure he can read, so that
may not have been bravery...."



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