"increasing" use of variable TRY AND

[Dfcoye at AOL.COM]

I didn't see this second posting before I wrote my first reply re "try and"
vs.  "try to".

<< Or is this just one more example of the so-often expressed naive notion
that
 the English language is going to the dogs--that every linguistic variant that
 one disfavors is evidence of "increasing" degeneration? >>

My original post said nothing like this.  I expressed no opinion toward one
form or another and certainly never said anything about the degeneration of
the language.

Dale Coye
The College of NJ