awfully/awful

Alison Murie sagehen7470 at ATT.NET
Sun Mar 8 16:39:03 UTC 2009


"That smells an awfully lot like godless socialism to
me." (D.M.Green," Smart is the New Stupid") I suppose thinking of
"lot" as an adjective is what brought on this bit of infelicity.
AM

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