mayn't

We kind of, almost, pretty much, but might not really know for sure: unless Congress agrees to raise the debt ceiling by Aug. 2, America's authority to borrow money will expire, and the government may or mayn't shut down.

Will Durst: Crouching Lurkers Will Durst 2011

We kind of, almost, pretty much, but might not really know for sure: unless Congress agrees to raise the debt ceiling by Aug. 2, America's authority to borrow money will expire, and the government may or mayn't shut down.

Will Durst: Crouching Lurkers Will Durst 2011

"Papa, if Steve ever comes to the United States, mayn't he come and see us some time?"

ALOHA OE 2010

We kind of, almost, pretty much, but might not really know for sure: unless Congress agrees to raise the debt ceiling by Aug. 2, America's authority to borrow money will expire, and the government may or mayn't shut down.

Will Durst: Crouching Lurkers Will Durst 2011

You mayn't think it's possible to get drunk on water, but you'd be wrong, for I reckon that's just what I did, gorging myself with it to the point where my brain became fuddled, so that in my lassitude common sense and caution took wing, and I crawled under the lee of the bank out of the wind, and lapsed into a sodden sleep.

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

You mayn't credit it, but I believe I heard the loving paterfamilias mutter something about "dying like a man".

THE NUMBERS 2010

We must smash when the fighting starts -- but we mayn't miss!

In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010

There had been a move at one stage (this is gospel, though you mayn't credit it) to invite my old comrade William Tecumseh Sherman, the Yankee general, to become Prince of Bulgaria, but nothing came of it.

Watershed 2010

"Course, some of them mayn't be clues at all, " he admitted handsomely.

Separate Douglas Light 2010

Oh, very well, seriously, then - they mayn't put him up in Trafalgar Square in place of Nelson, but it'll be a close-run thing.

THE NUMBERS 2010