Heard on The Judges: _for to_ VP (UNCLASSIFIED)

[David Bowie]

From:    Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>

> Yes, it's, IMO, very old-timey. Hearing someone less than half my age
> use it, when even my East-TX grandparents, born in the 19th century,
> didn't use it, caught my ear, the way that seeing East-TX country
> cousins pour coffee from the cup into the saucer and then drink it
> from there caught my eye.

> The speaker was from Youngstown, OH. But it wasn't necessariy the case
> that she was a native of that relatively-Northern city.


I don't know if i'm less than half your age, but i use 'for to'
conversationally.

David Bowie

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