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Didn't used to or didn't use to? examples: If used to is a set idiomatic phrase (i.e. Spook was actually used by black people to refer to white people, presumably on the notion of “white” ghosts.
[se spook, a ghost] (us black) a white person. Ms word doesn't see the differences, so i turned to essential grammar. I often hear i didn't used to be but that sounds awfully wrong in my ears.
If used to is a set idiomatic phrase (i.e. It is used within the ap stylebook, for example. As reported by the noad in a note about the usage of used:
What is the negative form of i used to be? 1 to add to kate bunting's comment, some has been used with singular nouns to refer generally to the noun (e.g. To me, used to and used for are incompatible, as shown in the examples below.
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.s. 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. 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?
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. Here is a question that has been nagging me for a few years: Which is the right usage: