Name: USE TOとUSED TOの違いは？アリーシャに聞く (Difference between USE TO and USED TO? Ask Alisha)
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Hi everybody, welcome back to Ask Alisha,

the weekly series where you ask me questions and I answer them. Maybe!

First question this week comes from Aiman.

Hi Aiman, you send lots of questions! Thanks!

Uh, well, you can say "I want rest" to mean in general just...

Um, grammatically, though, "I want to take a rest" is correct.

However, in American English, we don't usually say

It's more common to say "I want to take a break."

I want to take a break, or "let's take a break," or

You can say "I want to take a rest," but again, in American English, "rest" is less common.

Uh, Hi Alisha, what is the difference between "use to" and "used to" in fast speech?

Um, basically, when we're speaking quickly, or I suppose even not quickly, we tend to

Uh, it's just the pronunciation changes because it's difficult to say "used

I used to, I used to is very difficult to say, so we just say "use to" instead.

In each of these sentences, I contracted "used to" to "use to."

I think actually in most cases we probably do say "use to" instead of "used to"

Again, this shouldn't really cause any communication problems.

Used to and "use to" have the same meaning, just different pronunciation.

Sooin-teh says, Hi Alisha, which word do you prefer using as an American?

America, the United States, the United States of America, the US, the USA, or The States?

I only started using "America" to refer to my country when I moved to Japan

because the people around me use the word "America" to refer to the country.

But I think before that, I said, uh, "the US."

Why did I use "the US?" because it's short and easy to say "the US."

I don't want to say "the United States of America."

Gerson asks, uh, what does the American idiom "plead the 5th" mean?

In a sentence like "I plead the 5th" it means "I choose not to say anything."

This idiom comes from the US constitution.

So "amendment" is a word that means "addition."

So like, um, some new information was added to our country's rules; our country's laws.

The 5th Amendment--the 5th addition to the constitution--gives people in the US the right

So in other words, if we are being investigated... maybe police or law officials have questions

We have the right not to make a comment because maybe

we'll say something that will get us in trouble, even if we don't mean to.

So, uh, "to plead the 5th..." so, the 5th amendment.

I plead the 5th means "I ask for the right to remain silent."

Meaning "I'm going to choose not to make any comment."

So, uh, in most cases when we say "I plead the 5th" it's kind of in a casual situation,

like there's just maybe something we don't want

to comment about or some people use it as a joke, or maybe there's some secret you need

But "plead the 5th" means "I choose not to make any comments."

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