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1944 [US] D. The practical meaning is that the speaker doesn't know which church, or which castle: After wandering in the woods for days, he saw some castle in the distance. Hbk of Harlem Jive 19: Us young homes, and lanes and hipstuds, gray and fay, and spook and spade. p. Oct 27, 2015 · Officially it's "used to be" (and that should be used in written text), but even native English speakers cannot detect the difference between "used to be" and "use to be", when spoken. Jul 28, 2017 · If "used to" is a set idiomatic phrase (i. e. (Green’s May 6, 2013 · As reported by the NOAD in a note about the usage of used: There is sometimes confusion over whether to use the form used to or use to, which has arisen largely because the pronunciation is the same in both cases. g. Jun 13, 2019 · What is the negative form of "I used to be"? I often hear "I didn't used to be" but that sounds awfully wrong in my ears. In the sentence given though, help is quite definitely a verb, and used in an affirmative context, so it would be best to have either a plain infinitival or to -infinitival following it. MS Word doesn't "see" the differences, so I turned to "Essential grammar Apr 18, 2017 · Here is a question that has been nagging me for a few years: Which is the right usage: "Didn't used to" or "didn't use to?" Examples: We lived on the coast for years but we didn't use to go to the It is used within the AP Stylebook, for example. [SE spook, a ghost] (US black) a white person. However, in negatives and questions using Feb 14, 2024 · 1 To add to Kate Bunting's comment, some has been used with singular nouns to refer generally to the noun (e. "some church", "some castle") as early as the 12th century. May 6, 2013 · As reported by the NOAD in a note about the usage of used: There is sometimes confusion over whether to use the form used to or use to, which has arisen largely because the pronunciation is the same in both cases. Jul 29, 2023 · Spook was actually used by black people to refer to white people, presumably on the notion of “white” ghosts. Except in negatives and questions, the correct form is used to: we used to go to the movies all the time (not we use to go to the movies). 1939 [US] P. spook n. Miller Down Beat’s Yearbook of Swing n. E. However, I am unable to substantiate this. I have never seen a reference to and/or in any spoken English textbooks, and as such, when answering how it is spoken, I can only speak from personal experience. To me, "used to" and "used for" are incompatible, as shown in the examples below. Burley Orig. : spook: a white musician. not a tense), then why would it change its form from "use to" to "used to" for the sentence as it does in the positive? Jul 29, 2024 · These make up the vast majority of hits for 'can help doing something' in the Corpus of Contemporary American English. (Green’s .

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