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Not at all, Scribbler! I grew up in central New Jersey, and my ear always heard and I always said use rather than used. I never realized the awkwardness of it all until I wrestled with a line of a poem I was writing which read "boats use/used only to a shiver of glassen ripple on their reach of bay." Use falls on my ear correctly, but it just doesn't fit in written form, or the linquistically formal diction of the piece for that matter. I settled on used, but it still never sounds quite write to me. But I guess I'll get use to it!
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