Either and try to/and

[Donald M. Lance]

And then there's "I'll try and see if I can't do that."  My stock response, when
opportunity occurs, is "Why don't you try to see if you CAN do it?"
DMLance

Rudolph C Troike wrote:

> I was surprised to hear Ron Butters call the /ay/ pronunciation of EITHER
> "unpretentious", since that has always seemed to me to be either genuine
> British or an affectation (ditto for /an/VELOPE instead of /en/VELOPE --
> this latter a school-influenced pseudo-French pronunciation).
>
> My unscientific impression is that "try AND" is increasing, since I seem
> to hear it more and more on NPR interviews and from colleagues, but
> perhaps that is in part because I don't notice the occurrences of "try
> TO", just as people did not notice when Kennedy pronounced "Cuba" without
> an /r/. I still recall being startled to hear LBJ use "try AND" in a
> formal commencement address at Texas, since it seemed more typical for
> informal use.
>                 Rudy