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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Linguist here- what about “might could”? Anyone use that, and for the grammar mavens, does that grate, too? As in, I might could go to the store (meaning, Maybe, I’m the future I might…”). [/quote] I knew two people who used it regularly, one from Maryland and one from North Carolina. The Marylander was in my graduate English program, and I once heard her talking to an undergraduate about how to revise a paper: "Well, I was going to suggest that you X, but you might could -- to use the vernacular of my youth -- try . . . ." It didn't bother her enough to stop using it; I think it falls under the heading (or rubric, to borrow some pretension from my past) of "Wrong but useful." The people I knew who used it meant it in the sense of "Here is an option you should consider, but I'm not telling you you have to do it."[/quote]
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