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At 10:01 AM 7/5/2006, Sarah White wrote:
>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"?
DD: Of course, except that in my area, the former was considered
informal {spoken, but not written} high standard, and the latter
rather lower class.
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