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in this audiodrama I'm listening to.
Is "usedta could" a feature of Upper Midwestern, specifically Minnesota, speech? I thought you didn't much hear that sort of double modal* outside the South.
* Used to is sort of a modal, but I refuse to use the phrase "quasimodal" and, having learned it, I also refuse to use any other phrase because honestly, nothing can top that.
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Is "usedta could" a feature of Upper Midwestern, specifically Minnesota, speech? I thought you didn't much hear that sort of double modal* outside the South.
* Used to is sort of a modal, but I refuse to use the phrase "quasimodal" and, having learned it, I also refuse to use any other phrase because honestly, nothing can top that.
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