> In my teaching there (at NC State), I found "may" and
> "can" often confused and confounded--much more so than
> "may" and "might."
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> Candice
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Echoes of my old Prefect of Studies, a Welsh firebrand, who would say,
You can but you may not.
I can hear it to this day, and I think I used to say it to my kids. What a bore.
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