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Maverick@
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regular vs usual

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Dear all,

Would you please help me with this?

What's the difference between regular and usual?

In the TV show (how I met your mother)

On a Sunday night, Barney persuades Ted to go to different places than they usually go. They didn't go to their usual hang-out the bar, instead they went to pick up girls in the airport and finally wound up in Philadelphia in the police custody.

Ted: Barney, why do I hang out with you? Why? All I wanted was to have a regular beer at my regular bar with my regular friends in my regular city.I'd highly appreciate your help beforehand.
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Re: regular vs usual

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Let me try

If one usually does some things the one can rather do it but sometimes not.
So they would go out or sometimes stay at home.

But if one does something regularly in a particular situation, it is irreplaceable in that situation. So, his beer is irreplaceable with some other drink or not having the drink at all, his friends are irreplaceable too, and so on...
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