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Did I misunderstand this use? We say "I'm going to take my car in the shop" or "I will take your bike to Charlie's house."

In the five or six years since I noticed this I have never heard anyone on a US TV show or film use the verb 'take' in the context of 'to take to' such as 'I will take your bike to Charlie's house.'

What you'll hear is 'I'll bring your bike to Charlie's house.'

Wanna take a bath?

Technically a different verb - at least in romantic languages - as it means 'to take' rather than 'to take to'.
 
In the five or six years since I noticed this I have never heard anyone on a US TV show or film use the verb 'take' in the context of 'to take to' such as 'I will take your bike to Charlie's house.'

What you'll hear is 'I'll bring your bike to Charlie's house.'



Technically a different verb - at least in romantic languages - as it means 'to take' rather than 'to take to'.
Similar to the Victorian term of 'taking the waters' meaning going to a spa pool.

I suppose it's something to do with verbs taking direct and indirect objects
 
Not to mention pants and fanny bags 😵

Yesterday my daughter opened a parcel and said “great, I wanted some more knickers” and my son immediately said “I hope they aren’t pants”, which produced immediate hilarity all round.

If the joke isn’t clear across the pond, in the UK knickers specifically means female underwear. Pants also means underwear, either male or female (unlike in the US it doesn’t mean “trousers”, it means what you wear underneath trousers). It has another fairly general meaning in the UK, if something is “pants” it is something that is not very good quality; hence you don’t want knickers that are pants.
 
It's not just pronunciation. For example, the verb 'to take' doesn't appear to exist in America when used in the context of taking something to somewhere.

You could discuss that with American writer Dashiell Hammett
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Were they environmentally friendly sustainably sourced fair trade bags for life?
Considering they spent all night long grooving them, I would say so

[EDIT removed Pete & Dud Youtube sketch on account of unacceptable racist references]
 
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