I grew up using fetch, meaning to go get, probably because my father was from the South. But Northerners, including my husband, found it amusing, and I don’t use it as much anymore. But it’s a more interesting and more efficient use of language, don’t you think?
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sylvia:
April 27th, 2015 at 8:05 pm
I grew up using fetch, meaning to go get, probably because my father was from the South. But Northerners, including my husband, found it amusing, and I don’t use it as much anymore. But it’s a more interesting and more efficient use of language, don’t you think?