Is "if I good remember" sentence correct?

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nyota

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Are you sure you're not hearing "If I could ​remember ..."?

I say "If I remember rightly ..." - the phrase used by members of both sides of my family and so the one I grew up hearing.

I'm a bit confused, I thought rightly means justly or sensibly? I feel in your example it's to mean correctly, therefore, shouldn't it be right?
 

emsr2d2

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I'm a bit confused, I thought rightly means justly or sensibly? I feel in your example it's to mean correctly, therefore, shouldn't it be right?

See definition 3 here.
 

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Live and learn. Cheers emsr2d2.
 
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