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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mike Cash" data-source="post: 798537" data-attributes="member: 36">At work.That unless it is said by someone at the party to someone not at the party it is incorrect.I say that in full awareness that it conflicts with my recent usage of the "bring to the table" expression in another thread.I think it is a shift that only really came about after A.G. Bell gave us the ability to do that shift and be in verbal contact with an interlocutor at the same time. Certain linguistic features have a tendency to be shed by the language over time, in response to the changing requirements of the speakers. English has in the past lost case endings, for example. I think the previous bring/take distinction is being lost. You won't find many American English speakers who can correctly use the past perfect tense; they now use it as a faux-formal hypercorrect simple past tense instead.... which is really annoying to someone like me who wasn't present for the change and still expects it to have its former correct usage.Wouldn't it be nice if the OP let us know if the thread answered his question or not?</blockquote>