"Use to (or 'used to'?), we would go over ter Aunt Jenny's twict a week." Has anyone come across this adverbial usage of "use to" in the sense of "formerly" or "at one time". ( I practice my silent, invisible "wince, gag or sob" whenever I hear it, which is, alas, too often.) I think (and hope and pray) that it is merely a rare, moribund USA rural, or perhaps Southern regional, usage. In any case, yet another barbarism, another tiltable windmill for the rusty, blunted lance* of Ol' Scrib. (* Go ahead and have fun with that phrase, if you like. We need a chuckle or two.)