EvilTOJ, that is one of the funniest posts I’ve read here in eight years. Snotted the keyboard again.
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 .
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?
But we need adverbs!
Without them, we can’t have Tom Swifties.