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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>From: <span><span name="Mike Morgan"></span></span></font><span class="gI"><span name="Brooks, Mark" class="gD">Brooks, Mark</span> <span class="go"><a href="mailto:mark.brooks@twc.state.tx.us">mark.brooks@twc.state.tx.us</a></span></span></span></p>




<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>Subject: </font><span class="gI">LL-L "Grammar" 2012.11.01 (04) [EN]</span></span></p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>

<font></font></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Mike wrote: In North America anyway, such double modal constructions "are uniquely Southern"…</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I
 grew up in Texas to parents from Tennessee. The double modal is normal 
to me, and I didn’t even know it was different until I took some 
linguistic classes in college.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I
 hear others use double modals often around here, but I’d say their use 
seems to be declining. However, that decline is not due to me! I use 
them whenever I can
J.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">To
 me there’s a nuance to double modals that isn’t expressed with one or 
the other by itself. In other words, “I might could do that” is a shade 
different from either “I might do that” or “I
 could do that.” It’s a bit more likely that I will do something when I 
say “might could” than when I say “might.” To say “I might” means 
there’s a probability. To say “I could” means there’s a possibility. To 
say “I might could” means there’s both, and it’s
 more than likely.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Mark Brooks <br><br></span>
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