["maybe" in spanish]

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From: i
Date: 07/12/2004-14:04

Hi

I have found some words meaning "maybe" or "perhaps" in spanish, (i.e quizá,
quizás, tal vez, a lo mejor). 
can anyone please tell me the differences in signification and use? 

Thanks!!! :-D

Quizá and quizás express doubt.

The concept of doubt or uncertainty is often introduced
     by words such as quizás, puede que, tal vez, which trigger the
     subjunctive.

In some other cases, a condition or hypothesis may simply be implied, as in the
following sentence:

-Charlaban de vosotros y me dijeron que, a lo mejor, se acercaban a veros. =
'... perhaps / maybe they would drop by and see you.'