[Ads-l] "GOP lurches _FARTHER_ to the right!"

[MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)]

The hymn still uses it.  Or at least I've never heard anyone sing

Further along we'll know all about it
Further along we'll understand why . . . .


> 
> It’s not very often that you see or hear _farther_ used where it should be used, anymore. It’s almost as though _farther_, like _lie, lay,
> lain_, has been erased from the language. I’m not much concerned with the politics behind that sentence.
> 
> On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 1:24 AM Dave Hause <dwhause at cablemo.net> wrote:
> 
> > Maybe it only SEEMS that way because the Dems are lurching further to
> > the left.
> > Dave Hause
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Wilson Gray
> > Sent: Friday, September 29, 2017 8:25 PM
> > To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> > Subject: "GOP lurches _FARTHER_ to the right!"
> >
> > Shouldn’t that read:
> >
> > ''GOP lurches _further_ to the right!''? 
> >


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