# Where in the U.S. is "come with." used?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 10, 2010, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-in-the-u-s-is-come-with-used/524395 "2010-01-10T15:51:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2010, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-in-the-u-s-is-come-with-used/524395/61 "2010-01-15T03:45:02Z")

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I’ve spent 32 of my 38 years in various parts of the South. I say “come with,” but I think I picked it up from my father, who is a native Oregonian.

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**Author:** ![EnginNerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ea924/32.png) [@EnginNerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EnginNerd)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2010, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-in-the-u-s-is-come-with-used/524395/62 "2010-01-15T07:41:40Z")

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I grew up in the rural northwestern corner of Illinois, and I definitely say it. Since then, I’ve moved to Colorado, and I can’t think of a specific case of hearing it there (just because I wasn’t paying attention and didn’t realize it might be a regional thing). However, I’m sure I say it all the time and nobody has ever mentioned that it sounds weird or seemed puzzled by it, so it’s probably used frequently in that region, too.

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**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2010, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-in-the-u-s-is-come-with-used/524395/63 "2010-01-15T14:20:26Z")

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I’m from Texas and I’d never heard it at all until I was watching _Buffy_.

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**Author:** ![beatlejuice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a8b319/32.png) [@beatlejuice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beatlejuice)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2010, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-in-the-u-s-is-come-with-used/524395/64 "2010-01-15T15:04:09Z")

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> [@TerpBE](#):
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> I hope by “girlfriend” you’re just referring to a female friend. Otherwise her husband is very tolerant (or lucky if you’re also female).

Girls up here in the North refer to their female friends as girlfriends. Yes, we do. Her husband is very tolerant, but I’m afraid, not that lucky. When it pertains to me anyway.

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