Sandykins  +  11806 Thu, 30 Oct 03 11:27 PM My husband and I were just having this discussion (he's Swedish and I'm American) and we came up with 2 more. He was constantly saying things like "That was very coward.". I finally brought it up to him tonight that I thought that was wrong. He assumed that it was right because it followed the rules of grammar and that the -ly is only given to adverbs. So, here they are: cowardly dastardly Sandykins Joined on Thu, Oct 30 2003 Sweden New Member 01 "If you judge people, you have no time to love them." -Mother Theresa Grammar, Adverbs, Verbs

	Orpheus  +  12327 Fri, 07 Nov 03 11:38 AM Hi Sandykins, welcome to the forums. To add to the list: deadly, likely, lively, lonely, silly Orpheus Joined on Tue, Jun 17 2003 Jakarta, Indonesia Regular Member 590 'Truth is Subjectivity' - Kierkegaard

	Elena  +  12891 Thu, 13 Nov 03 03:25 PM This is a link for this -ly adjectival addiction http://www.sru.edu/depts/cisba/compsci/dailey/words/lys.html Elena Joined on Thu, Jul 31 2003 Regular Member 827 Enjoying my English study

	pieanne  +  143055 Thu, 29 Sep 05 06:35 PM Mind your spelling, Anon! It's "purposely", "certainly" and "uncertainly". Besides, all these (I mean all of them) are adverbs    ...   pieanne Joined on Thu, Jan 20 2005 South of France ...But I'm Belgian! Veteran Member 7,517 I'm glad to help, but I'm not a native! And please excuse my typos... Spelling, Adverbs, Verbs

	Nyef  +  187661 Mon, 23 Jan 06 09:07 PM Here's a big list I've been working on (in addition to the last two, posted by Sandykins): costly neighborly hourly daily weekly monthly yearly mostly portly sickly poorly wifely homely miserly friendly manly brotherly motherly fatherly deadly kindly kingly lovely Nyef Joined on Mon, Jan 23 2006 New Member 01