21/8/19 MAYBE AND PERHAPS

These two words mean the same. In British English both are common:
maybeis used mostly in an informal style.
Compare:
- Maybe/Perhaps it’ll stop raining soon.
- Julius Caesar is perhaps the greatest of Shakespeare’s early plays.
Perhaps is often pronounced “praps” by British people.
In American English,
perhaps is less common, and is rather formal.
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