Comments on: Word Pairs: Farther? Further?

By: Melissa Donovan

Melissa Donovan — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 19:28:26 +0000

Kimberly, that sounds like serendipity to me!

By: kimberly

kimberly — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:43:17 +0000

This is great! Just today I was commenting on someone’s blog using both farther and further and after I hit “submit” I asked myself, “did I use those two correctly?” Then I visited your blog and sure enough I did! Great information!
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By: Melissa Donovan

Melissa Donovan — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:08:45 +0000

I like the word figurative. It’s so mysterious… and ambiguous.

By: Melissa Donovan

Melissa Donovan — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:07:58 +0000

I actually think that eventually, these two words will become one, and why shouldn’t they? Physical versus figurative distance and the difference of a single letter… seems arbitrary to me, but we like to be good grammarians, right? So for now, yes, let’s spread the word!

By: Melissa Donovan

Melissa Donovan — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:06:39 +0000

“Theater” and “theatre” always irk me. I’ve noticed that spell check doesn’t like “theatre,” I’ve looked it up and haven’t yet found a definitive answer, but the consensus seems to be that “theater” is the American spelling while “theatre” is British. Some say that both are acceptable or that “theatre” is sometimes used to sound more British or traditional. I tend to use “theater” myself.

By: J.D. Meier

J.D. Meier — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:37:34 +0000

Figurative distance vs. measurable distance … I like that.

I also like how you took it further and showed the ambiguity case.
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By: Positively Present

Positively Present — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:17:22 +0000

Great one! I notice that a LOT of people have trouble with this. I’m definitely passing this along to some of those people right now.
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By: Kelvin Kao

Kelvin Kao — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:14:08 +0000

That is interesting. I’ve been taught that these two words are interchangeable, but I’ve always used them the way you’ve just described here. It just makes more sense to me that way.

This is not exactly related, but I’ve also been taught that the words “theater” and “theatre” are just the same word spelled in different ways. However, I like to use “theatre” when I refer to the art of stage performance and “theater” as the physical venue that actors perform in. I don’t know why I do that, but that just happened to make more sense to me.
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