"May" trying to do Might's job

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

On May 2, 2007, at 10:32 AM, Alison Murie wrote:

> Heard on NPR news this morning  (roughly):
> New intelligence reports reveal that the public transport bombings in
> London, 2005 ,* may * have been averted...

Language Log discussion of may/might:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002014.html

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002016.html

(the second has a compact but fairly thorough survey of the situation.)

arnold

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