[Ads-l] "_Lastly_" (58,000,000 raw G-hits),

[Jonathan Lighter]

I'll never forget my consternation when I first noticed my freshmen - lots
of 'em - starting to write "majorly" in the '80s.

 Meaning 'extremely,' of course.

"Minorly," meaning 'somewhat' came a later, I believe.

JL

On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 3:47 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> but not "_leastly_" (41,200 raw G-hits), apparently. My spell-check insists
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> Brian Grazer in TIME, April 20, 2015, P.60d:
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> "I think it's _leastly_ about race."
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