Stahlke, Herbert F.W. wrote:

>"Useta could" is part of my most informal register, but I think I picked it up while we lived in Atlanta for six years in the 70s.
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>Herb
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>Hey all you people who recognized "a whole 'nother..." as part of your
>regional language heritage, do you also recognize "useta could" as in "I
>useta could recite all the state capitals from memory, but now I can't"?
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Herb,

I hear "might could" here in Appalachia.

For example: "I "might could" help you with your tobacco cutting tomorrow."

Marshall

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