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Not the question you asked, but:
In my callow yoot, I was frequently taken to task for asking "Can I…" and told the correct word to use was "may" in that context. These same prescribers (the ones we learned English from in the first place), in their own speech, would use "can" in this context. The only time I heard the "proper" word being used was in the game we called "Mother May I".
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