[SE spook, a ghost] (US black) a white person. Burley Orig. Hbk of Harlem Jive 19: Us young homes, and lanes and hipstuds, gray and fay, and spook and spade. (Green’s Apr 12, 2011 · Bryan Garner, Garner's Modern American Usage, fourth edition (2016) provides what I take to be the current (and traditional) formal prescriptivist view among U. . The usual phrase has for centuries been compare with, which means "to place side by side, noting differences and similarities May 6, 2013 · As reported by the NOAD in a note about the usage of used: There is sometimes confusion over whether to use the form used to or use to, which has arisen largely because the pronunciation is the same in both cases. e. 1944 [US] D. p. Oct 21, 2010 · 0 First, expressions like yours for the asking and even asking price are perfectly correct; ask is used in both as a verb. The practical meaning is that the speaker doesn't know which church, or which castle: After wandering in the woods for days, he saw some castle in the distance. It is used within the AP Stylebook, for example. Jul 29, 2023 · Spook was actually used by black people to refer to white people, presumably on the notion of “white” ghosts. Second, the use of ask as a noun seems to have originated in the financial markets and spread through popular media to the masses. usage authorities of when to use compered with and when to use compared to: compare with; compare to. Oct 27, 2015 · Officially it's "used to be" (and that should be used in written text), but even native English speakers cannot detect the difference between "used to be" and "use to be", when spoken. To me, "used to" and "used for" are incompatible, as shown in the examples below. ). However, I am unable to substantiate this. Except in negatives and questions, the correct form is used to: we used to go to the movies all the time (not we use to go to the movies). MS Word doesn't "see" the differences, so I turned to "Essential grammar Apr 18, 2017 · Here is a question that has been nagging me for a few years: Which is the right usage: "Didn't used to" or "didn't use to?" Examples: We lived on the coast for years but we didn't use to go to the It is used within the AP Stylebook, for example. : spook: a white musician. "some church", "some castle") as early as the 12th century. (i. May 6, 2013 · As reported by the NOAD in a note about the usage of used: There is sometimes confusion over whether to use the form used to or use to, which has arisen largely because the pronunciation is the same in both cases. I would like to see how many different parts of speech can the word fuck be used as in its unmodified form. S. no fucking, fucked, etc. MS Word doesn't "see" the differences, so I turned to "Essential grammar Jun 13, 2019 · What is the negative form of "I used to be"? I often hear "I didn't used to be" but that sounds awfully wrong in my ears. E. 1939 [US] P. Jul 28, 2017 · If "used to" is a set idiomatic phrase (i. not a tense), then why would it change its form from "use to" to "used to" for the sentence as it does in the positive? Oct 27, 2015 · Officially it's "used to be" (and that should be used in written text), but even native English speakers cannot detect the difference between "used to be" and "use to be", when spoken. Mar 6, 2014 · But, perhaps dialectally, the word can easily be used as a noun, and even an adjective. However, in negatives and questions using Feb 14, 2024 · 1 To add to Kate Bunting's comment, some has been used with singular nouns to refer generally to the noun (e. May 6, 2013 · As reported by the NOAD in a note about the usage of used: There is sometimes confusion over whether to use the form used to or use to, which has arisen largely because the pronunciation is the same in both cases. Pluralization of noun or conjugation to fucks is the only acceptable variant. not a tense), then why would it change its form from "use to" to "used to" for the sentence as it does in the positive? Jun 13, 2019 · What is the negative form of "I used to be"? I often hear "I didn't used to be" but that sounds awfully wrong in my ears. Apr 18, 2017 · Here is a question that has been nagging me for a few years: Which is the right usage: "Didn't used to" or "didn't use to?" Examples: We lived on the coast for years but we didn't use to go to the To me, "used to" and "used for" are incompatible, as shown in the examples below. As with many such short verb-nouns there could be a Chinese influence in play. g. I have never seen a reference to and/or in any spoken English textbooks, and as such, when answering how it is spoken, I can only speak from personal experience. spook n. Miller Down Beat’s Yearbook of Swing n.

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