RE: farther and further

Subject: RE: farther and further
From: "McDonald, Nancy A." <NMcDonal -at- wcom -dot- net>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 13:05:30 -0500

RE farther and farther along....

Again, I open my trusty "Modern English Usage" by Fowler: He says
"...'further' is a comparative of 'fore' and 'farther' is a newer variant of
'further', no more connected with 'far' than 'further' is, .... according to
OED... 'farther' is usually preferred where it's the comparative of 'far'...
while 'further' is used where the notion of 'far' is altogether absent;
there is a large intermediate class of instances in which the choice between
the two forms is arbitrary." There's more, but I'll stop now... (btw,
this is 2nd ed, pp 189 ff.)
hth
Nancy McDonald
Sr. Project Manager
Process and Project Management
UUNET
A WorldCom Company
Global Hosting Operations
614.723.4947
nmcdonal -at- wcom -dot- net



> -----Original Message-----
> Subject: farther and further
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> Looked for this one in MoS, but didn't find anything.
>

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