[Ads-l] "... you must to have at least one."

Cohen, Gerald Leonard gcohen at MST.EDU
Tue Mar 10 16:28:56 UTC 2015


If not spoken by a foreigner, it looks like a blend: "You must have at least one" + "You have to have at least one."
G. Cohen 
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Dave Hause wrote, Tuesday, March 10, 2015 11:21 AM

This sounds, to me, more like a formation of a native speaker of a language
in which an auxiliary verb takes the infinitive.

Dave Hause, dwhause at cablemo.net
Waynesville, MO
-----Original Message-----
From: Wilson Gray
Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2015 1:35 AM

Probably just a slip of the mind
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