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

>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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