Two posts ago, I was going to use the word thusly, got a little nervous, Google-define:d it, and came across this:
thus + -ly, dating from the 19th century, seemingly coined by educated writers to make fun of uneducated persons trying to sound genteel,[1] with a false inference that thus is not an adverb.
Say what you want about wikis -- that just sounds too right not to be true.
Given how much I rail at people for saying things like "he took Joe and I to the movies," I had to say to myself … buuuuuurn sauce … I guess would be the way to put it.
Anyway, you can rest easy now: I won't be correcting anybody's grammar or usage for … oh, at least an hour or two.
2 comments:
Grammar-Nazi. :)
'twas everly thus
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