See might could on Wiktionary
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{ "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "sco", "2": "micht cud" }, "expansion": "Scots micht cud", "name": "cog" } ], "etymology_text": "In many Germanic languages and dialects modals can be stacked to combine their meanings; compare Scots micht cud.", "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "verb" }, "expansion": "might could", "name": "head" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "verb", "related": [ { "word": "might can" }, { "word": "might should" }, { "word": "double modal" }, { "word": "stacked modal" }, { "word": "modal stacking" } ], "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English calques", "English dialectal terms", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English modal verbs", "English multiword terms", "English verbs", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries", "Southern US English" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1972-1991, Cyrus Colter, The Rivers of Eros →ISBN, page 133 http://books.google.com/books?id=MY6J8etc8jAC&lpg=PA133&dq=%22he%20might%20could%20go%22&pg=PR6#v=onepage&q=%22he%20might%20could%20go%22&f=false", "text": "\"Grammaw, Mr. Hammer said today you know things you won't talk about. That if he knew more about what's goin' on he might could go to the police, or to a lawyer, and maybe have Dunreith Smith arrested again.\"" }, { "ref": "2002-3, Michael Johnston, In the Deep Heart's Core →ISBN, page 172 http://books.google.com/books?id=_rqWu8NTKBsC&lpg=PA172&dq=%22he%20might%20could%20go%22&pg=PA172#v=onepage&q=%22he%20might%20could%20go%22&f=false", "text": "\"He might could go there anyway and stay on academic probation for a year and then start running, but they won't accept him if he don't have a high school diploma.\"" } ], "glosses": [ "might be able to (used to soften \"could\" or make it even more conditional)" ], "links": [ [ "might", "might" ], [ "be able to", "be able to" ], [ "soften", "soften#English" ], [ "could", "could#English" ] ], "qualifier": "double modal / stacked modal", "raw_glosses": [ "(double modal / stacked modal, used in some dialects, chiefly Southern US) might be able to (used to soften \"could\" or make it even more conditional)" ], "raw_tags": [ "used in some dialects" ], "tags": [ "Southern-US" ] } ], "word": "might could" }
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