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To: MaryFromMichigan

A popular one today among the young but I don’t know that it’s Brit in origin is:

“Wanna come with?” as in, “I’m going to the mall, wanna come with”?

I’ve forbidden my grand children from using it in my presence.


28 posted on 02/07/2011 5:37:28 AM PST by Graybeard58 (Of course Obama loves his country. The thing is, Sarah loves mine.)
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To: Graybeard58

I think “Come with” is a Philadelphia thing. At least that’s where I was first exposed to it in frequent usage and that was 20+ years ago.


32 posted on 02/07/2011 5:45:34 AM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Graybeard58
I’m going to the mall, wanna come with”?

I think this has been around longer than you think. When I was growing up that's how my grandmother would ask if I wanted to accompany her to the store. "Do you want to come with? She was first generation American of German extraction. I'm in my 50's so it's been around at least that long.

52 posted on 02/07/2011 6:02:38 AM PST by Vor Lady
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To: Graybeard58

Nah that’s almost certainly PA Dutch. A similar shortening you won’t hear much beyond 100 miles of Lancaster County PA is simply “all” instead of “all gone”: “Hey can you pass the peas?” “No, the peas are all.”


58 posted on 02/07/2011 6:06:47 AM PST by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: Graybeard58

I grew up in Illinois, and people always said “wanna come with?” As an adult I moved to California, where people never say it. I thought it was just an Illinois thing.


100 posted on 02/07/2011 7:15:02 AM PST by Nea Wood (Silly liberal . . . paychecks are for workers!)
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To: Graybeard58

It’s German. A college friend used to say it, and I found it in Mencken.


108 posted on 02/07/2011 8:07:51 AM PST by firebrand
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To: Graybeard58

Being from the South, standing “on line” always struck me as wrong. You stand in line, not on line. I think that’s a New York deal however, so there you go.


120 posted on 02/07/2011 9:39:32 AM PST by alarm rider (The left will always tell you who they fear the most. What are they telling you now?)
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To: Graybeard58

I’m a Brit and I’ve never heard that one. It must be a homegrown phenomenae...


129 posted on 02/14/2011 3:43:51 AM PST by Vanders9
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