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Quote from: dustyvalentino on December 13, 2023, 10:27:34 AMQuote from: jbaent on December 13, 2023, 07:11:01 AMQuote from: dustyvalentino on December 13, 2023, 12:24:28 AMIt doesn’t make sense in “normal” English. It’s maybe something someone from a state in the Bible Belt of America could say but I don’t know, I’m not from there.Maybe is something he does deliberately, like in songs like " I used to could"According to this (American) academic, it's a common mistake there:https://brians.wsu.edu/2016/05/19/used-to-could/I'd never heard it used before the song, but I have heard one of my favourite singer-songwriters (Cory Branan) say it, and he's from Memphis. But he's also an MK fan, so maybe he got it from him!I use it myself in certain situations and I'm not from Memphis!
Quote from: jbaent on December 13, 2023, 07:11:01 AMQuote from: dustyvalentino on December 13, 2023, 12:24:28 AMIt doesn’t make sense in “normal” English. It’s maybe something someone from a state in the Bible Belt of America could say but I don’t know, I’m not from there.Maybe is something he does deliberately, like in songs like " I used to could"According to this (American) academic, it's a common mistake there:https://brians.wsu.edu/2016/05/19/used-to-could/I'd never heard it used before the song, but I have heard one of my favourite singer-songwriters (Cory Branan) say it, and he's from Memphis. But he's also an MK fan, so maybe he got it from him!
Quote from: dustyvalentino on December 13, 2023, 12:24:28 AMIt doesn’t make sense in “normal” English. It’s maybe something someone from a state in the Bible Belt of America could say but I don’t know, I’m not from there.Maybe is something he does deliberately, like in songs like " I used to could"
It doesn’t make sense in “normal” English. It’s maybe something someone from a state in the Bible Belt of America could say but I don’t know, I’m not from there.