The dwindling band of those of us who understand the perfectly simple difference between may have (which means that it is possible now that something happened) and might have (which means that it was possible in the past that something would or did happen) will have been startled to read the comments made by Richard Hammond (BBC here) on his severe brain injury while attempting to break a land speed record:
"It was 50/50 what was going to happen. I may have been dead, I may not have woken up."
He is apparently telling us that it is possible that he was dead and that possibly he has not woken up, but that he doesn’t know in either case.
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