most -est

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Tue Sep 10 01:41:59 UTC 2002


At 5:13 PM -0400 9/9/02, Bethany K. Dumas wrote:
>from "Get Fuzzy" today:
>
>"ARE dogs the most boringest writers in the whole world?"
>
>Bethany

A much earlier "most un...-est", although without the caps, is
Shakespeare's "the most unkindest cut of all".   Not all that unusual
back then.

larry



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