SC - "is there anything wrong with saying 'might I have'?" - not in my book, indeed, a close relative often uses that expression.
Three items have come to annoy/ puzzle me in recent years...
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Comics or presenters (eg on BBC Radio 7) who end their piece with "I've been ..." (and yes, I know that sometimes a stage name needs to be unique, but AFAIK these are no pseudonyms but their real life names anyway, and in my view, they will still be in 5 minutes or 5 days, so why not simply say "I'm , and thanks for listening" (or some similar closing remarks).
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mostly from scientific people, when interviewed on radio, asked about some paper they've written and the methodology used...
Scientist / -ologist
" So, we took X thousand samples and ...."
To me, the "So, " is just unnecessary 'noise' and I've no idea why these eminent academics have adopted this odd method of answering...
- not one that annoys, just puzzled me...
while visiting some friends in California, Carol tells a friend on the phone "Oh yes, there's visiting with us" and goes on to say "visiting with" in other sentences.
I'm thinking of some sentence on the lines of
Carol and John are visiting Joanna with Paul
ie "with" to introduce someone other than the 'visitee'
their "with" seems to be a noise word meaning no-one in particular (or themselves, perhaps)
Anyone in America care to comment as to typical sentences where 'visiting with' could not be simply 'visiting' please, just to help assure me I didn't misunderstanding what they meant!