What is the difference between thus and thusly?
Usage guides and dictionaries largely agree that thusly was coined for humorous purposes in the mid-nineteenth century in the US as a hypercorrect substitute for thus (Butterfield 2007:157). Most of the prescriptive usage guides treat thusly critically and describe it as “best-avoided” and replaced...
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Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA)
2018-06-01
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/erea/6152 |