American Language Supplement 2 (2012)
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THE ADJECTIVE “In the dialects [of English],” says Wright, “the comparative suffix -er and the superlative -est are added to practically all adjectives, polysyllabic as well as monosyllabic. More and most are as a rule only used to supplement the regular comparisons, as more beautifuller, more worst.”1 He adds betterer, betterest, bestest, worser, worsest, morer and mostest. Wyld, in his “History of Modern Colloquial English,”2 recalls Shakespeare’s most unkindest cut of all, and traces badder, ...more better, more surer, more gladder, more larger, more greater, more stronger, more fresher,3 most best, most bitterest, most hardest and most nearest to the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.4 Jespersen notes that “the natural tendency in colloquial speech is to use the superlative in speaking of two,” and that “this is found very frequently in good authors.” Russell Thomas assembles examples from Mallory, Pope, Boswell, Coleridge, Emerson, Melville and many others.5 In the American common speech such forms are very numerous, and Wentworth lists betterer and more betterer from Georgia and Alabama, more beautifuller from Pennsylvania, more better from the Ozarks and South Carolina, moreder from Nebraska, more hotter from Virginia, more resteder from Appalachia, more righter from New England, bestest from Mississippi, bestmost from Arkansas, mostest from Indiana, and leastest from Massachusetts, Alabama, Georgia and Newfoundland.
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THE ADJECTIVE “In the dialects [of English],” says Wright, “the comparative suffix -er and the superlative -est are added to practically all adjectives, polysyllabic as well as monosyllabic. More and most are as a rule only used to supplement the regular comparisons, as more beautifuller, more worst.”1 He adds betterer, betterest, bestest, worser, worsest, morer and mostest. Wyld, in his “History of Modern Colloquial English,”2 recalls Shakespeare’s most unkindest cut of all, and traces badder, ...more better, more surer, more gladder, more larger, more greater, more stronger, more fresher,3 most best, most bitterest, most hardest and most nearest to the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.4 Jespersen notes that “the natural tendency in colloquial speech is to use the superlative in speaking of two,” and that “this is found very frequently in good authors.” Russell Thomas assembles examples from Mallory, Pope, Boswell, Coleridge, Emerson, Melville and many others.5 In the American common speech such forms are very numerous, and Wentworth lists betterer and more betterer from Georgia and Alabama, more beautifuller from Pennsylvania, more better from the Ozarks and South Carolina, moreder from Nebraska, more hotter from Virginia, more resteder from Appalachia, more righter from New England, bestest from Mississippi, bestmost from Arkansas, mostest from Indiana, and leastest from Massachusetts, Alabama, Georgia and Newfoundland.
What to read after American Language Supplement 2?
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