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Thompson	BS: Words that should be reintroduced :-) (51* d)	RE: BS: Words that should be reintroduced :-)	31 Oct 23
There was an extremely slender Miss Pitt, I think it was in the 18th century and in England, who was known as The Bottomless Pitt. What I'd like returned is the correct distinction between "may" and "might" - "may" is increasingly used for both senses. If you say "a car may have killed her", you're suggesting that this is a possibility, and fairly likely. But if you say "If she had been crossing the motorway at the time, a car might have killed her", the suggestion is that it could have happened but it's a fairly remote possibility, since she actually wasn't crossing any motorway.

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