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okay, I'm going to try and copy this one more time for the benefit of those who ignored or missed the point the first time:
and ... 10. Connecting two verbs the latter of which would logically be in the infinitive, esp. after go, come, send, try; familiarly and dialectally after various others.
to me this means that statements such as:
I'm going to come and see you tomorrow.
I'm going to try and do that in the morning.
could be read (in the mind's eye) as:
I'm going to come (and) to see you tomorrow.
I'm going to try (and) to do that in the morning.
perhaps "try and" results from a conflation of usages.
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