# Grammar - 'may' or 'might' **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 27, 2021, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grammar-may-or-might/938875 "2021-03-27T23:13:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 14
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I asked about “may” vs. “might” long ago: > [@Wish I may, wish I might...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wish-i-may-wish-i-might/410150): > > Could one (or more) of the Dope’s grammar experts please explain the difference between “may” and “might”? Every so often I read or hear something that uses the word “may” in a way that sounds wrong to me, where “might” would be the more appropriate word, or vice versa. But it might be me who’s wrong—or should I say “it may be me who’s wrong”? The most recent example: I read, in a review of John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces, “Toole’s prose is energetic, and his talent, had it mature… > [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > In the case of “They _might_ be giants” it is referring to the remote chance that a windmill is actually a giant In case it needs to be said: The band They Might Be Giants took its name from the movie of that name, which took its title from this. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grammar-may-or-might/938875)._