By Adverbs, Dialects

In "proper" conversational and written English, the first three should all be "quickly" (though some dialects might use "quick"). In #3 more people of all persuasions might say "quick" in conversation, or even in informal writing (though never in formal...

Koto wrote: I'm not sure but I guess "anymore of " is American and "any more of" is more like British?Hi KotoI can only repeat what I said in my previous post: anymore refers to time. E-mails are not time. The following extract is from the Random House Webster's Dictionary (an American...

Historic Lughnasadh Lughnasadh is a harvest celebration named for Lugh (Irish), Llew (Welsh), Lug (Britonic),or Lugus, the Celtic sun god. Lugh was one of the most popular of the Celtic gods. He gave his name to many towns around Europe including Lugdunum (Lyons) and perhaps even Londinium...

Hello Abbie I got the info in OED Gerund -ing The original function of the suffix was to form nouns of action; as ácsung (asking), from ácsian to ask;céapung, -ing (cheaping),;créopung (creeping); gaderung (gathering). These substantives were originally abstract; but even in OE. they often came...

I may have spoken too hastily... In the Little/Small thread in the Vocab section, khoff perceptively says that ' sounds like a childish vocabulary selection'. I think this is true. In the instances where I've heard adults use 'little' in this way, there has usually been an element of humour or...

There is no quick way of describing this situation in Brit English Interestingly cool, Nona. Would BrE have caterways or caterwise? (I'm not sure if they're all that common today in North American English.) Source: www.wordlwidewords.org It has lots of variant forms, such as catercorner,...

My understanding is that 'due to' in these examples is 'correct': 1. 'Cancellations due to the lack of a driver are all too common these days.' 2. 'The cancellation was due to the lack of a driver.' But 'incorrect' in these: 3. 'Due to the lack of a driver, the 1105 to Waterloo has been...

Hello MrP History of English Gerunds (quoted from OED) The most notable development of the verbal nouns in form of -ing is its use as a gerund, i.e. a substantive with certain verbal functions, particularly those of being qualified by an adverb instead of an adjective, and of governing an...