Date: Thu, 21 Apr 1994 08:05:00 EDT From: "Dennis.Preston" <22709MGR[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MSU.BITNET> Subject: Bring/Take I think you are exactly right about the German(ic) [-English] backgrounds of the bring/take 'confusion.' Milwaukee, for example, is a hotbed of it. Have a look at my article ('Take and bring') in Word, 35,2, 1984, pp. 177-86. Dennis Preston <22709mgr[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]msu.bitnet>