USAGE: yusta (was: RE: CHAT: return of the long-lost (was: RE: THEORY/USAGE: irregular

John Cowan
> And Rosta scripsit:
>
> > As for remembering you, used you to meet up with Colin Fine in
> > Bradford?
>
> BTW, this goes on the list of Brit/Am grammatical differences, along
> with "Susan suggested that she play/should play Ophelia" and
> "The Queen are raising their rates".  AmE requires "Did you /just@/?"
> which is spelled "Did you used to" despite the appearance of a doubly
> marked past tense.
It is a known difference, but aux _used_ is obsolescent, though
surviving in my idiolect. For example, in the 100m word British
National Corpus, the stats are:

did you used 42
used you to  0

did he used  11
used he to   0

did she used 2
used she to  0

did they used 13
used they to  0

So a foreigner learning BrE should learn the form with DO.

--And.