Re: USAGE: Weird dialectal stuff

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>> For myself, I might write "I didn't used to," but I would say "I didn't
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>> use to."
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>> I simply can't pronounce that d without great difficulty and then only
>by
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>> putting a significant pause between used and to.
>Do you mean that when you say "I used to" it sounds like "I useta"?
>That's pretty much the normal pronunciation, just like "have to" and
>"has to" have become "hafta" and "hasta".  Indeed, I can think of a
>minimal pair:
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No, I say I use to. Use and to remain separate words and the "to" is not
pronounced "ta." I simply have trouble with the cluster "sd." Which I
think is pretty common. In general (around here), it seems to me people
turn "d" after "s" into "t."  Blessed is blest, etc.

So, I generally drop the "d" in "used to." If I want to emphasize it
though, sometimes I voice the "s" (z), aspirate (is that right? add a puff
of air) the d and pause for a sec before I say "to."

Liss

P.S. to whomever asked: "Would of" etc. is also a U.S. thing. I'm from the
U.S.