This was a useful response, thank you. I think I will only correct "may" to "might" if there's a genuine chance for confusion. I like the use of "may" as "pos

This was a useful response, thank you. I think I will only correct "may" to "might" if there's a genuine chance for confusion. I like the use of "may" as "possibly". For example it's an easy way to say, "maaaaybe I was." (I may have been.) Whereas "I might have been" is about a conditional - it means something different than "maybe I was". Come to think of it, our very word "maybe" isn't about permission - and it doesn't have the form "mightbe". Still, it is useful to know what prescriptivists think, so thanks for the summary.