May and May Not. 

This has been around for a long time, or rather has been bothering me for a long time (I'm sensitive). When the speaker is a tiny bit nervous perhaps, they'll say something like: "The client may or may not choose the expensive option".  There is no reason to say "or may not". To say "The client may choose the expensive option" obviously (conversationally) implies that the client is not being forced to choose the expensive option.  In the example that I'm thinking of, she is at least subliminally aware of this; there was a little micro-pause between the first 'may' and the phrase 'or may not'; i.e.:  "The client may ... or may not .. choose the expensive option".  

Going Forward in Future

Two related things that have me scratching me head. 

(1) One is the use of 'going forward' to announce that the phrase about to be stated is to be understood as pertaining to the future.  But this is the job of the future tense! Which such people is such cases do use; they're not so grammatically benighted as to lose their sense of tense. It's another case of mere verbal clutter. If they dispensed with 'going forward', their message would no less clear. 

(2) In Britain it's common to speak of 'in future' rather than 'in the future'.  It seems not to be associated with class, age, or region. You hear it all over the place (north, south, east and west).  It isn't obligatory in British English; one hears plenty of 'in the future's.  But why 'in future'?  No one speaks of 'in past'.