[BITList] David Cameron and more.

[John Feltham]

G’day again,

I have had a response.

Have a look at the given URL.

ooroo





On 7 Feb 2015, at 4:57 pm, xxxx at gmail.com> wrote:

There is no rest and no sleep for the wicked and the pedant!
 
Somebody has raised this very question at: 

http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/145683/conundrum-cleverer-or-more-clever-simpler-or-more-simple-etc <http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/145683/conundrum-cleverer-or-more-clever-simpler-or-more-simple-etc>
 
You may want to add your own voice to it.
 
Tell me when you get any response.
 


> G'day folks,
> 
> The pedant in me is waging a war on the current use, by the print and TV media, and pollies, of the word “more”.
> 
> Mr. Cameron spoke this week about the passing of Sir W.C. Churchill..
> 
> “History has been kind to Winston Churchill, not because he wrote it, but because he shaped it. He left a Britain more free, more secure, more brave and more proud, for that we will always be grateful to him,” Mr Cameron concluded.
> 
> I have to ask what is wrong with the following?
> 
> “History has been kind to Winston Churchill, not because he wrote it, but because he shaped it. He left a Britain freer, securer, braver and prouder, for that we will always be grateful to him,” Mr Cameron concluded.
> 
> How do we get more free than freer?
> 
> How do we get more secure than securer?
> 
> How do we get more brave than braver?
> 
> How do we get more proud than prouder?
> 
> I hear and read it in Australia, the UK, the USA, India and Canada.
> 
> Where does this come from? How and when did it arrive?
> 
> I have also heard more faster!  
> 
> How does one get more faster than faster?
> 
> And...
> 
> He was more drunker than he was last week. 
> 
> How does one get more drunk than drunker?
> 
> ooroo

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