Re: Warter, warter everywhere

ranjit_mathews@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Brian M. Scott wrote:
On 12 Oct 2006 07:12:12 -0700, Greg Lee
<greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
in sci.lang:

There's certainly no such general principle: 'slow' and
'slowly' are both adverbs. (That I'm not fond of adverbial
use of 'slow' is beside the point: it's been around for over
500 years.)

It has? What I learnt in school was that slow is an adjective but is
used as an adverb by people who can't speak pakka English (i.e., people
who speak broken English).


Lots of words and expressions that people were taught in school were not 'correct' turn out to have been used for hundreds of years, and sometimes by the most respected writers.

Colin
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