Pick your "-lily" adverbs with care.

Word Ways | November 1, 2003| | Copyright

When John Henry Newman wrote "Lead, Kindly Light" at sea on June 16 1833, he didn't mispunctuate, intending "Lead Kindly, Light". How can one say this with confidence 170 years later? Very simply, because we know that Newman would never had been guilty of such a syntactical faux pas. Instead, he would have had to write "Lead Kindlily, Light", sacrificing sound to sense.

In their Dictionary of Modern English Usage, the brothers Fowler had an interesting article about adverbs such as this, which they dubbed "-lily adverbs".

A great many adverbs are formed ...

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