Might ought to tune this thing, " he'd say
source:
COCA
Entry:
1028
Example:
"Might ought to tune this thing," he'd say.
Modal 1:
might
Modal 2:
ought to
Gender:
Male
Race/Ethnicity:
Unknown
Age:
unknown
Level of Education:
Unknown
Home Community, Town, or State:
Unknown
Location Collected:
Fictional Novel
Year:
1990
Relation to Addressee:
man to man (with audience)
Medium:
Written
Sentence Structure:
1.0
Status:
Naturalistic
Notes:
Source: Hall, Mary-Ann Taylor. 1990. 'One Main Sound in Ploughshares 16:4. (author is from FL)
Full Context: take everybody's minds off what they'd just heard. or old poker-faced Louis would crawl inside that dobro and break it loose. Then we'd all be in it again, and Cap and Joyner and Louis would sing one last chorus. Then we'd all step back and finally take quick sidelong glances at one another, fall to tuning or adjusting capos or taking care of busted strings, getting ready for the next number, Cap chatting the audience up while we did it, joking with Joyner like nothing unusual at all was happening. " Might ought to tune this thing, " he'd say, and Joyner would come back, " Why mess with it now? We was all just about to get adjusted. " # I smiled and joked around, I smiled and drank my beer, and all the time, I swear, that sound was looming underneath everything. Vast, harmonic, taking in everything. I smiled, sliding sideways, the big glissando, like a leaf sliding on the wind, down and down and down, while
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