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I'm gonna try and change the course of hip hop again. (Dr.

This usage is very similar in meaning to try to, if not identical, but is deemed prescriptively incorrect (Routledge 1864:579 in D. Ross 2013a:120; Partridge 1947:338, Crews et al. 1989:656 in Brook & Tagliamonte 2016:320). 3) ...howe and by what certaine and generall rule I mighte trye and throughly discerne the veritie of the catholike faithe, from the falsehood of wicked heresye... (1554) 4) You maie (saide I) trie and bring him in, and shewe him to her. In South African English, on the other hand, try may be inflected while the second verb remains a bare form (examples from D. Ross 2013a:125):

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