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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Re: Terribly, Awfully #45557 10/23/01 11:30 AM Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 866 Perth, Western Australia stales old hand stales old hand Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 866 Perth, Western Australia In order (1) You are positively wrong! (2) Sounds awfully British to me. (3) Inept wordsmiths trying to sound like ept wordsmiths My own Q: (a) Are these not adverbs, rather than adjectives? (b) Why not drop all words with 'ly' suffixes on the basis that they are superfluous? (Yes that old hobby horse of mine again - sorry!!) stales Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Terribly, Awfully Rouspeteur 10/23/01 10:09 AM Re: Terribly, Awfully stales 10/23/01 11:30 AM Post deleted by Wordwind Wordwind 10/23/01 12:14 PM Re: Terribly, Awfully wwh 10/23/01 01:39 PM Re: Terribly, Awfully Rouspeteur 10/23/01 03:01 PM Re: Terribly, Awfully wow 10/23/01 06:37 PM Re: Terribly, Awfully tsuwm 10/23/01 06:43 PM Re: Terribly, Awfully Capital Kiwi 10/27/01 05:26 PM Re: Terribly, Awfully Capital Kiwi 10/27/01 05:35 PM Re: Terribly, Awfully of troy 10/23/01 06:45 PM Re: Terribly, Awfully Jackie 10/24/01 01:48 AM Re: Terribly, Awfully stales 10/23/01 11:51 PM Re: Terribly, Awfully stales 10/23/01 11:51 PM Re: Terribly, Awfully rodward 10/24/01 10:43 AM Garbling the message rodward 10/26/01 09:44 AM Re: Garbling the message tsuwm 10/26/01 02:52 PM Re: Terribly, Awfully Giznawz 10/28/01 07:24 AM Re: Terribly, Awfully Jackie 10/28/01 11:40 AM Re: Terribly, Awfully Faldage 12/27/01 12:32 PM Re: Terribly, Awfully wwh 12/27/01 03:10 PM Re: Terribly, Awfully Capital Kiwi 12/27/01 03:17 PM Re: Terribly, Awfully duncan large 12/27/01 06:09 PM Re: Terribly, Awfully Wordwind 12/27/01 06:45 PM Re: Terribly, Awfully of troy 12/27/01 08:34 PM Re: Terribly, Awfully tsuwm 12/27/01 11:04 PM Rhumb lines Jackie 12/28/01 12:28 AM Re: Plumbing the depths of unfathomable knowledge Keiva 12/28/01 04:56 PM Re: Plumbing the depths of unfathomable knowledge tsuwm 12/28/01 05:13 PM Bad Axes Sparteye 12/27/01 08:08 PM Re: Terribly, Awfully WhitmanO'Neill 12/28/01 04:23 AM Re: Terribly, Awfully Vixy 12/27/01 01:56 AM Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Flat Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,915 Posts230,174 Members9,198 Most Online4,606 Sep 17th, 2025 Newest Members testawad, Bill_L, achz, MAGNVSTALSMA, Burlyfish 9,198 Registered Users Who's Online Now 0 members (), 602 guests, and 2 robots. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 30 A C Bowden 13 LukeJavan8 3 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 wofahulicodoc 11,062 tsuwm 10,542 LukeJavan8 9,971 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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