Arrive AT or Arrive TO?

Arrive AT or Arrive TO?

  • Arrive AT and I'm American

    Votes: 68 55.3%
  • Arrive TO and I'm American

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Arrive AT and I'm Not American or Canadian

    Votes: 36 29.3%
  • Arrive TO and I'm Not American or Canadian

    Votes: 2 1.6%
  • Arrive AT and I'm Canadian

    Votes: 17 13.8%
  • Arrive TO and I'm Canadian

    Votes: 0 0.0%


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Anyway, 'Arrived At' is for sure correct. I've got a bone to pick with the poll though sorting all English into 'American', 'Canadian', and 'Other'. The UK has a greater population than Canada and much bigger differences to American English. Australia has 26 million people and has bigger differences to American English than Canada does. Hell, India has over 100 million English speakers. Idk, it smacks me the wrong way.
That's "differences from", you filthy Englishman. ;)
 



I arrive at the Ferry

They arrived too.

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I went to the Ferry.

We arrived at a quarter to two.

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I came to the Port.

If you were wondering where I was, that is where I was at.
 

I agree with the consensus that "arrived at" (or sometimes on or in) is correct, and not "arrived to". I would expect that "arrived to" is the result of a non-native speaker whose native language does use the equivalent of "arrived to" – Swedish, for example, would use "anlände till" which becomes "arrived to" when translated word for word.
 




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