try and?

[A. Maberry]

Since I still have the Archives search page open, there was a discussion
of "try and and try to" in mid-July 2000.

allen
maberry at u.washington.edu


On Thu, 17 Apr 2003, Peter Richardson wrote:

> There must be something in the archives about "try and" as well: "I'll try
> and get to it in the morning." Does anyone know how old the apparent
> substitution of _and_ for _to_ is in this case? Possibly analogous is
> "I'll look and see" = "I'll [take a] look in order to see." Note that we
> can't say "I'll try and [do it]," but that "I'll try to [do it]" is just
> fine: *I'll try and / I'll try to.
>
> Peter R.
>