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From: "credoquaabsurdum" <credoquaabsurdum@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: used to
Date: 10 Jul 2005 03:30:57 -0700
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Chris Croughton wrote:
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> Ah, I was looking in the 1968 2nd edition, revised by Sir Ernest Gowers.
> He mentions "usedn't" as colloquial but otherwise dismisses it (and
> confirms that the form "didn't used to" is regarded as vulgar by most
> Brits although he regards it as merely colloquial).
...and everyone knows, of course, that nothing has changed in the
English language since 1968...
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