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Bring v Take

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    looksee
    Registered Users Posts: 28,567 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Interesting point, though I do feel that the way 'bring' is used colloquially in Ireland is so firmly and long established that it is a legitimate use.


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    Mearings
    Registered Users Posts: 559 ✭✭✭Mearings


    ' bring: Partially distinguished from take according to movement towards the speaker ((bring), or away from or accompanying the speaker take:eg take your raincoat with you and bring me a newspaper from the corner shop.
    There many circumstances, however, in which this simple distinction does not apply: eg if we are going to the zoo shall we bring/take the camera?

    Fowler's Modern English Usage (3rd ed.1997)


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