[HPFGU-OTChatter] "Coming with?", Canadian/American accents

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In a message dated 2/24/02 12:29:06 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
s_ings at yahoo.com writes:
         
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 > 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.
 > The only time I ran 
 > across it was a British man I used to work with. He
 > was forever 
 > saying "I'm going to [do whatever], want to come
 > with?" etc. >>

           We lived in Minnesota for 4 years, and the phrase  "want to come 
with?", and all its variations,  is used everyday.  I don't know where it 
started,  but it is definitely a Minnesotan staple of speech.  
                    Hope that helps, 
                                Jen