I hate the phrase "used to". It's irritating- to me, it just seems to always screw up the flow of a sentence, and no matter how much I think about it I cannot figure out how that combination of words could ever come to mean what it does. It just seems like an archaic artifact we've become complacent in adopting because we really don't have much else to fill it with. It screws me up every time I pass over it- taking me precious seconds more to figure out what it means.
I'm sorry for the rant. It's just like a bird tugging at the base of my skull every time I hear it, like arguing with a guy whose argument is composed of 30% "That's the thing". Terrible.
Excuse me for a minute, I think I need to print out some tissues.
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