- “I have a membership to the Ipswich Y.”
Is this just a cultural/geographical thing?
When I was growing up in the Chicago area, we never said we were members to something.
During that long, hot quarter-century I spent in the Sonoran Desert (that’s you, Scottsdale, AZ), I never once took a membership to something.
But here in New England, these past 10 years or so, it seems to be:
I have a membership to…
It’s like “I have an attraction to…” “I have an attachment to…” But weirder.
Maybe when you sign up for the Ipswich Y, they do something weirdly biological to you?
Oh, wait. I just Googled it. That was me, back in 2013.
Sorry. Never mind.
English Is A Complicated Language 