Garnish Your Sentances With An Adverb?

a: Adverb ~
b: putting a hat on a horse

What: "I seem to remember Fowler saying that adding "ly" to a word that's already an adverb is like "putting a hat on a horse." Same goes for "firstly" in my book."

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Writer: Perchprism
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Date: Oct 8 2013 7:32 PM


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