"Coming with?", Canadian/American accents

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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "athene_51" <athene_51 at y...> wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> Not sure if I've ever posted here before, but wanted to weigh in 
with 
> a Canadian perspective...
> 
> Aberforth's Goat wrote:
> > BTW, I once had a Canadian friend who would always "come with."
> > Whether this was normal, I don't know; in many other respects, he
> > wasn't, so there's no telling.
> 
> Is this really seen as a Canadian phrase? I've lived in Canada all 
my 
> life, and I have never heard a Canadian say this.

I must say that, in during my 25-odd years of living in Canada I 
never heard this phrase either.  Either it's regional, or it is 
specific to one or a few ethnic groups.

Coming back to what Tabouli was saying about South African English, 
some of the phrases you stated are grammatically correct in Dutch.  
I'm sure I don't need to tell you that the Boers originated from the 
Netherlands, and while Afrikaans and Dutch are very distinct there 
are still similar enough for a not-quite-fluent Dutch speaker like 
myself to understand a lot of Afrikaans.  The same would happen with 
English in, say, the US and Canada, especially where one ethnic group 
is prevalent.  Grammar and vocabulary from the immigrant language 
will creep into the surrounding English language.

My parents immigrated from the Netherlands to Canada, but we moved 
back to the Netherlands for a few years when I was a baby.  So 
technically Dutch is my mother tongue, but I speak Dutch with a 
Canadian accent, and my mom told me that often I'd use English 
grammar while speaking Dutch.

Just a little piece of trivial garbage for you.

Cheers!

Mary Ann :)