Come round & come over
If the following two sentences are correct, do they mean the same thing?
1) You must come round (to my house) sometime soon.
2) You must come over (to my house) sometime soon.
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They are both correct, and they mean roughly the same. In this sort of context, "over" and "round" have somewhat vague or variable connotations of closeness, familiarity, or intervening features to be crossed/navigated. For example, if the other person literally just has to cross a street to get to your house then you might tend to say "come over".
- They are both correct, and they mean roughly the same.
- In this sort of context, "over" and "round" have somewhat vague or variable connotations of closeness, familiarity, or intervening features to be crossed/navigated.
- For example, if the other person literally just has to cross a street to get to your house then you might tend to say "come over".
- However, it doesn't preclude you from saying "come round".
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They are both correct, and they mean roughly the same. In this sort of context, "over" and "round" have somewhat vague or variable connotations of closeness, familiarity, or intervening features to be crossed/navigated. For example, if the other person literally just has to cross a street to get to your house then you might tend to say "come over". However, it doesn't preclude you from saying
0In US English, 1) would have to be "...come around...". The meaning of the two sentences is the same, but 2) is friendlier-sounding than 1). Also, 1)'s house would typically be farther away than 2)'s.
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