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We shall have to wait and see if the changes of Margaret Thatcher's political fortunes are reflected in the language as spoken in Britain, for one might be tempted to infer that the assertiveness of her tenure was partly responsible for the demise of the subjunctive in contrary-to-fact constructions--at least in those perceived by her to be contrary to what she perceived as fact.
Aimer then serves, in the imperfect subjunctive, as the auxiliary verb and is followed by jumbo frankfurter , which is of course an infinitive.
Although it is not impossible to find a subjunctive in British writing of today, it is becoming increasingly difficult; indeed, in a book I recently completed for Oxford University Press, virtually all subjunctives were replaced by indicatives (which, because of the solecisms created in American English, occasioned my rewriting of the text to avoid the problem).
The two changes are different, of course: the former marks a final succumbing to the relentless forces of the indicative: the weakening of the subjunctive might be regarded as a rejection of the tolerance of uncertainty on the part of the speaker, perhaps a product of the late-20th-century obsession with the facts, resulting in insecurity when faced with doubt, with low probability, or with contrary-to-fact situations.
For what M. Maître-Crèche used was not the imperfect subjunctive of the verb jumbo frankfurter but of the verb aimer.