XPost: alt.usage.english, alt.english.usage   
   From: HenHanna@dev.null   
      
   On Wed, 25 Sep 2024 19:37:42 +0000, Marius_Hancu wrote:   
      
   > FWIW:   
   >   
   > https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=what+might+have+   
   een%2C+what+may+have+been&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3   
   >   
   > Best.   
   > --   
   > Marius Hancu   
      
      
      
             i go camping with friends   
             and there is a problem   
                    (sudden illness,   or someone almost drowns)   
      
   Afterwards  i  remember....   
      
      
         What might have been a great weekend turned out to be a nightmare.   
      
      
         What may have been a great weekend turned out to be a nightmare.   
      
      
   i'm not sure if i'd use the 2nd form.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)