# The Death of the Adverb

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-death-of-the-adverb/530305>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [February 24, 2010, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-death-of-the-adverb/530305 "2010-02-24T20:25:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-death-of-the-adverb/530305/21 "2010-02-25T10:06:25Z")

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**EvilTOJ** , that is one of the funniest posts I’ve read here in eight years. Snotted the keyboard again.

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**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-death-of-the-adverb/530305/22 "2010-02-25T10:14:17Z")

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> **Reality Chuck** : Tell me, did someone pass a rule that forbids looking up things in a dictionary before ranting that they are wrong?

From the OED: “DIFFERENTLY. Now only in uneducated use.”

If none of us knew that and even you had to look it up, what does that say about the Dopers in this thread?

I can’t speak for y’all, but my feelings are hurt and hurt bad ly .

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**Author:** ![Negative\_Lite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Negative\_Lite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Negative_Lite)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-death-of-the-adverb/530305/23 "2010-02-25T13:19:18Z")

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Got here lately. Can’t stay longly. Must run upstairsly. Be rightly back, prettily damnedly quickly.

Boy, that sounds funnily!

Why cry over the -ly?

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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-death-of-the-adverb/530305/24 "2010-02-25T13:36:47Z")

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But we _need_ adverbs!  
Without them, we can’t have _Tom Swifties_.

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