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DD Farms <[log in to unmask]>
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Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 5 Jul 2006 11:04:12 -0500
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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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