Might ought to go on foot.
source:
COCA
Entry:
1023
Example:
Watty squinted down the road. "Might ought to go on foot." # It was decided that we'd park the Studebaker on the oil lease behind the property, make our way through the timber and come up on the trailer from behind.
Modal 1:
might
Modal 2:
ought to
Gender:
Male
Race/Ethnicity:
White
Age:
unknown
Level of Education:
Unknown
Home Community, Town, or State:
OK (Unknown)
Location Collected:
Fictional Story
Year:
2005
Relation to Addressee:
man to man
Medium:
Written
Sentence Structure:
1.0
Status:
Naturalistic
Notes:
Source: Peery, Janet. 2005. 'Great Men and Famous Deeds' in The Kenyon Review 27:1.
(author is from KS)
Full Context: wn, lobbed the meatloaf into a wheatfield and called it good, gone off to eat fried chicken at the Buckaroo. # Watty appeared to consider. " We head down his lane, he's liable to shoot at us. " His Okie accent rendered " liable " as " lobble, " making the word sound posse-like and western, dangerous. tHe smirked. " And us just doing the neighborly thing, checking up on him. " # " Our Christian duty, " I put in. # Watty squinted down the road. " Might ought to go on foot. " # It was decided that we'd park the Studebaker on the oil lease behind the property, make our way through the timber and come up on the trailer from behind. As we jolted down the lease road toward the edge of the woods, I hefted the meatloaf. " We can sneak up and plunk this on his doorstep. Repulsifer'll never know. " # In the time it took to ease the truck around the pump jack, make a three-point turn
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