Author: Chris Thompson Date: To: exim-users Subject: Re: [Exim] Conditions
Philip Hazel <ph10@???> writes: >
> On Wed, 15 May 2002, Juha Saarinen wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 15 May 2002, Philip Hazel wrote:
> >
> > > That's why I said "may".
> >
> > Ahhh... "might" would have been clearer ;-).
>
> English has too many ways of expressing things.
>
> That caused me to wonder what the difference was. I looked in my Concise
> Oxford English Dictionay. Under "might" it says "see may"!
>
> "Might" is of course originally the past tense of "may", but it gets
> used in different ways. The full OED says "might (subj.) is often used
> colloq. (a) with pres. inf. to convey a counsel or suggestion of
> action". I guess I'm not colloquial enough for you. :-)
Maybe you just have doubts about Might being Right?
