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How accurate is it to say I might would, if I could? Just reading on the intricacies of can and may and it got me curious.

Rachel
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    I would, if I could; but I can't, so I won't. – Elliott Frisch Jan 14 '14 at 17:51
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    Feasibly there could be some dialectal pocked where I might would is a valid construction, but I rather doubt it. I think this is General Reference - the answer being it's *not at all accurate* (i.e. - it's totally ungrammatical). – FumbleFingers Jan 14 '14 at 17:54
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    @FumbleFingers: not so fast. Modal stacking is the name, and guess which country likes playing weird games virtually unknown outside of it. – RegDwigнt Jan 14 '14 at 17:58
  • @Reg: I guess I might shouldn't have been so hasty (or *maybe I shouldn't have, as the rest of us say). In my defence though, even though I'm not aware of having come across it before (which is presumably why it sounds so weird to me), I could almost imagine the "logic" of such construction. So I claim half a brownie point for having the presence of mind to say feasibly ... dialectal* (despite the fact that I didn't believe it at all at time of writing! :) – FumbleFingers Jan 14 '14 at 21:22

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