My friend Orry has just come back from a year’s travelling in the Antipodes. Having taught English very briefly in Thailand and enjoyed the experience, he’s returned under the rain with a sense of vigour and the desire to spend the next few years of his life working as an English teacher abroad. To this end, he’s enrolled himself on a course.

Anyway, he must be thinking about the subject a fair bit because he texted me the following message at the hour of 07:36 the other day:

English trivia for you — did you know that you say “didn’t we use to” instead of “used to” but you say “she used to”? Had no idea about that rule!

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