Date:  Wed, 20 Mar 1996 07:25:47 -0800

From:  "J.Russell King" <jrking[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]IX.NETCOM.COM>

Subject: Re: may/might distinction



>Of course, asking about whether or not your lack of a distinction was

>"dialect" or "solecism" was a bit of a joke--the lack of a distinction

>seems to be widespread among educated speakers in the English-speaking

>world.

>

>I have collected over the past twenty years numerous print

>examples from well-educated people of sentences like,

>"If he didn't have to run against Anderson as well as Nixon, Hubert

>Humphrey may have been elected president of the United States."



No this doesn't sound quite right. Not at all. The third candidate in

that race was Wallace, not Anderson.