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Forum: English Questions Mar 11th, 2009, 07:13 am
Replies: 11
Views: 62,882
Posted By susan53
Re: More dull or duller?

No - why? It follows the rules of adverb formation and is fully comprehensible. The fact that it's unusual is irrelevant. That's how language changes - someone starts using a word or a form in an...
Forum: English Questions Mar 9th, 2009, 11:46 am
Replies: 11
Views: 62,882
Posted By susan53
Re: More dull or duller?

You'll hate me for this, but look what I found on the concordancer :

It was said, you know, rather loosely and friendlily as I often say many things.

Which just goes to show how the language...
Forum: English Questions Mar 9th, 2009, 04:51 am
Replies: 11
Views: 62,882
Posted By susan53
Re: More dull or duller?

Yes - two syllable adjectives are nearly always "flexible", in that they can form the comparative/superlative with either -er/-est or more/most. That goes too, incidentally, for adjectives ending in...
Forum: English Questions Feb 28th, 2009, 02:52 am
Replies: 11
Views: 62,882
Posted By susan53
Re: More dull or duller?

Duller : The general rule is that one syllable adjectives take -er (though there are cases where more is also used). So duller. In this case it seems pretty definitive. I fed both into the Cobuild...
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