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Thread #118662   Message #3100112
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
21-Feb-11 - 11:38 PM
Thread Name: BS: English grammar question
Subject: RE: BS: English grammar question
I have heard 'I might could' in East Texas (near Arkansas), so it could be a regional usage.
I'll look up may and might in my handy-dandy 20 volume OED tomorrow, it's getting past my bed time.

Starlight, star bright, First star I see tonight,

Wish I may, wish I might, have the wish I wish tonight.

And so to bed.