Ouc  +  313221 Tue, 09 Jan 07 10:50 PM The first sentence in the first article of one of my journals is "I recently visited with my friend, Sam Roymond, in his kitchen near Woods Hole, Massachusetts" At the first glance, I was puzzled by using "visited with", but  using "visited" my friend.  After reading carfully the sentecne again,  I realized the phrase of "in his kitchen". By looking up it in an online dictionary, I find the "visited with" here equals to "interviewed" or "talked with". More examples: Mrs. Laura Bush visited with patients and their family members at the Korle-Bu Treatment Center, Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2006 in Accra, Congressman George Miller visited with students at an event for Upward Bound on ... A Visit With Castro.  "A Visit with Mrs. G" ------------- Maybe you have more to add Ouc Joined on Mon, Jan 1 2007 New Member 09 Articles

	Widget  +  313231 Tue, 09 Jan 07 11:09 PM American English:  "I recently visited with my friend, Sam Roymond, in his kitchen near Woods Hole, Massachusetts" and "Mrs. Laura Bush visited with patients and their family members at the Korle-Bu Treatment Center". British English:   "I recently visited my friend, Sam Roymond, in his kitchen near Woods Hole, Massachusetts" and "Mrs. Laura Bush visited patients and their family members at the Korle-Bu Treatment Center". "Visited"?  Or "visited with"?  It depends on where you are in the world Widget Joined on Tue, Nov 7 2006 New Zealand Junior Member 71 American English, British English

	MrPedantic  +  313233 Tue, 09 Jan 07 11:10 PM Hello Ouc It's not very common in British English; I think in American English it implies "to visit and converse with amicably". (But I'm open to correction.) MrP MrPedantic Joined on Tue, Oct 12 2004 Veteran Member 12,592 ...opella forensis / adducit febris... American English, British English

	Grammar Geek  +  313257 Wed, 10 Jan 07 12:26 AM Yes, a nice description, Mr. P. I enjoyed a nice visit with my parents. In the South, visit isn't even transitive. What did you do? We just visited. (Sat and talked.) Grammar Geek Joined on Tue, Jan 10 2006 Veteran Member 19,683 Barbara, who answers in American English. My housekeeping skills attest to the truth of the second law of thermodynamics: Left to themselves, things get more and more random!

	Grammar Geek  +  313267 Wed, 10 Jan 07 01:05 AM Mr. P said that "visit with" isn't used much in the UK. Grammar Geek

	MrPedantic  +  313683 Thu, 11 Jan 07 12:08 AM  Grammar Geek wrote: Mr. P said that "visit with" isn't used much in the UK. Yes; I would only expect to hear "meet with" from a BrE-speaker who had much to do with AmE-speakers (or watched a lot of US tv). MrP MrPedantic Grammar

	Widget  +  314078 Thu, 11 Jan 07 07:43 PM "Visited with" is mainly used in the US, and countries with a connection to the US.  In the UK, and countries with a colonial connection to the UK, it's more usual to say, for example, "I'm going to visit my friends"; NOT "I'm going to visit with my friends."  Don't worry about which one to use  Widget