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Re: CHAT: return of the long-lost (was: RE: THEORY/USAGE: irregular English plurals

From:Andrew Smith <andrew.smith20@...>
Date:Wednesday, May 29, 2002, 9:52
>As for remembering you, used you to meet up with Colin Fine in >Bradford? > >--And.
Thanks very much. Yes I did use(d) to meet up with Colin, though I haven't seen him in years or kept in contact. By the way, your "used you to" question above sounds very strange to me, but now more pressing is that I can't decide how to write the answer: a) "I did use to" or b) "I did used to". Clearly, using the emphatic "did" instead of the basic past normally requires a basic verb "use", yet "used to" now appears to me to be fossilised, and so I have a strong aversion to changing it in any way. Help! Andrew

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Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>