{"id":6649,"date":"2012-02-14T16:39:07","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T16:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=6649"},"modified":"2012-02-14T16:39:07","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T16:39:07","slug":"visiting-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=6649","title":{"rendered":"Visiting with"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve noticed in novels and other things in American English that I&#8217;ve read recently that people talk about &#8216;visiting with&#8217; friends or other people, in the sense of spending time with them. In British English you might visit a place with a friend, but you don&#8217;t usually visit <strong>with<\/strong> a friend in the American sense.<\/p>\n<p>I just put &#8220;visit with&#8221; into Google.co.uk and the first site in the results is one entitled &#8220;Places To Visit With The Family UK&#8221;. In Google.com though, one of the first results is a story about someone who can &#8220;visit with his grandchildren while out on bail&#8221;. I would use see in place of visit with in this context.<\/p>\n<p>To me at least, going to visit somewhere or someone sounds like a relatively formal activity &#8211; you might visit someone in hospital or prison, or visit relatives, especially if they live quite a way away, but you would go to see your friends.<\/p>\n<p>In American (or other flavours of) English is there a differences in meaning between going to visit someone and visiting with someone?<\/p>\n<p>Do other languages distinguish different types of visit?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve noticed in novels and other things in American English that I&#8217;ve read recently that people talk about &#8216;visiting with&#8217; friends or other people, in the sense of spending time with them. In British English you might visit a place with a friend, but you don&#8217;t usually visit with a friend in the American sense. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}