Re: USAGE: double modals (was Re: negativity)

From:    Geoff Horswood <geoffhorswood@H...>

>Where's your wife from? Double modals such as this are actually
>pretty rare in Texas, compared to the rest of the South, since much
>of Texas was settled by people from the lower Midwest.  I myself
>don't use it, and don't recall ever hearing another Texan use it,
>but the more I think about it, the more it makes practical sense to
>me:  three syllables less than "I might be able to have".
I live in the Blue Ridge Mtns. of western VA.  "Might could" is very
common in this area.  I've been here 14 years.  It's beginning to
sound "correct"!

Charlie
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