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by OJFord 616 days ago
> Double infinitives ("to try to eat") getting changed to an infinitive and conjunction ("to try and eat").

Or worse, 'to try eat', 'to go get', etc.

It's very American to my ear, but it's certainly invading.

Another corruption triple like that is to do something 'accidentally' / 'by accident' / 'on accident'.

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"go" + verb is a specific idiom, but I can't say that "try eat" is common or widely accepted as correct in American English.