Re: Microsoft pays dear[ly] for insults through ignorance

[dmbrown -at- brown-inc -dot- com]

Suzanne -dot- Cole -at- pattersondental -dot- com wrote:
>
> Microsoft pays dearly. It's an adverb, requiring the adverb form
> ending in -ly. Shakespeare can be allowed poetic license, but in
> contemporary prose, the adverb should be used.

That was my reasoning, too.  In light of Chris Gooch's citation from 
Fowler, though, I'll be checking to see if my belief might indeed be "borne 
our of grammatical zeal."  (I still wouldn't use it myself, though.)

>
> Steve wrote, 'And the problem with that sentence is what, exactly?
> "Bloomer" is UK English for "blooper."'
>
> "Bloomer" is US English (although outdated) for "underwear."

According to my fattest dictionary, Steve is right:  wearing bronze on the 
definition podium, "bloomer" is a perfectly acceptable synonym for 
"blooper" in the UK.  Apparently it's derived from "blooming," a euphemism 
for "bloody," which hain't acceptable in refined company.

--David

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