Date:  Tue, 8 Apr 1997 18:33:30 -0400
<br>From:  Beverly Flanigan  FLANIGAN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]OUVAXA.CATS.OHIOU.EDU 
<br>Subject: Re: used to could
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<br>  Well, DInIs, we Deep Northerners do say "used to be able to"--I heard
<br>  no other way until I moved to Ohio! (And you don't get any deeper
<br>  North than western Minnesota and Fargo; the scenes of snows and floods
<br>  in "Monte" and Granite Falls, MN are from my neck of the woods--I grew
<br>  up near the Yellow Medicine River, which flows into the Minnesota,
<br>  which flows into the Mississippi....)
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