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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Re: There can be only one worst. #86893 11/16/2002 5:39 PM Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 872 Birmingham, Alabama milum old hand milum old hand Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 872 Birmingham, Alabama Uh...once it is agreed that "worse" can be modified by number then it semantically sound to modify that grouping by degrees of "worse". As in... The three worst teams in the NFL are the Bears, the Giants, and the Jets. And the worst of these are the Jets. (Of course they are not. But it is linguistically correct to say so.) Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Least worst? wwh 11/13/2002 9:05 PM Re: Least worst? Jackie 11/14/2002 2:06 AM Re: Least worst? wwh 11/14/2002 2:11 AM Re: Least worst? Wordwind 11/14/2002 2:18 AM Re: Least worst? wwh 11/14/2002 2:26 AM Re: Least worst? Wordwind 11/14/2002 2:32 AM Re: Least worst? wwh 11/14/2002 2:35 AM Re: Least worst? Faldage 11/14/2002 11:03 AM Re: Least worst? Jazzoctopus 11/15/2002 2:23 AM Re: Least worst? wwh 11/15/2002 2:48 AM Re: Least worst? Jazzoctopus 11/15/2002 3:15 AM Re: Least worst? WhitmanO'Neill 11/15/2002 4:09 AM Re: Least worst? sjm 11/15/2002 4:23 AM Re: Least worst? dxb 11/15/2002 11:37 AM Re: Least worst? RhubarbCommando 11/15/2002 12:03 PM My two cents wofahulicodoc 11/16/2002 6:34 PM Re: Least worst? WhitmanO'Neill 11/15/2002 2:24 PM Re: Least worst? C J Strolin 11/15/2002 5:10 PM Re: Least worst? wwh 11/15/2002 1:51 PM Re: Least worst? tsuwm 11/15/2002 2:15 PM There can be only one worst. TEd Remington 11/16/2002 4:51 PM Re: There can be only one worst. milum 11/16/2002 5:39 PM Re: There can be only one worst. wwh 11/16/2002 5:48 PM Re: There can be only one worst. tsuwm 11/16/2002 6:29 PM Re: There can be only one worst. tsuwm 11/16/2002 6:32 PM Re: And worstly... WhitmanO'Neill 11/16/2002 7:03 PM Re: There can be only one worst. Jazzoctopus 11/16/2002 6:31 PM Re: There can be only one worst. modestgoddess 11/16/2002 6:54 PM Re: There can be only one worst. tsuwm 11/16/2002 7:01 PM Re: There can be only one worst. WhitmanO'Neill 11/18/2002 7:15 PM Re: There can be only one worst. milum 11/16/2002 7:34 PM Re: There can be only one worst. wwh 11/16/2002 8:27 PM Re: Least Worst vs. Safire's Law Faldage 11/16/2002 8:41 PM Re: Least Worst vs. Safire's Law wwh 11/16/2002 8:57 PM Re: Least Worst vs. Safire's Law Faldage 11/16/2002 9:02 PM Re: Least Worst vs. Safire's Law wwh 11/16/2002 9:15 PM Re: Least Worst vs. Safire's Law milum 11/16/2002 9:40 PM Re: Least Worst vs. Safire's Law nancyk 11/16/2002 10:41 PM Re: Baddest Faldage 11/17/2002 12:41 PM Re: Baddest milum 11/17/2002 1:06 PM Re: Least Worst vs. Safire's Law WhitmanO'Neill 11/16/2002 11:21 PM Re: less/least /worse whatever! wow 11/17/2002 2:25 PM Re: less/least /worse whatever! wwh 11/17/2002 2:29 PM Re: less/least /worse whatever! WhitmanO'Neill 11/17/2002 3:30 PM Re: less/least /worse whatever! Faldage 11/17/2002 4:11 PM The crack of the pen musick 11/17/2002 8:38 PM Re: The crack of the pen Faldage 11/17/2002 8:51 PM Re: The crack of the pen musick 11/17/2002 9:14 PM Re: The crack of the pen RhubarbCommando 11/18/2002 6:58 PM Re: The crack of the ? consuelo 11/23/2002 8:19 PM 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 Topics13,916 Posts230,389 Members9,211 Most Online7,006 Mar 7th, 2026 Newest Members Boo boo kitty fu, peterreineck, Peripatetic Toad, JerryC, blvd 9,211 Registered Users Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 33 A C Bowden 16 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 wofahulicodoc 11,213 tsuwm 10,542 LukeJavan8 9,974 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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