OK. So, I check my Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary.

Post #94,958 by a6l6e6x 4/7/03 11:15:20 PM 4/7/03 11:28:25 PM Reply	OK. So, I check my Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. Tenth Edition. further (adv) - 1. farther farther (adv) - 1. at or to a greater distance or more advanced point However, under usage it says: Further and farther have been used more or less interchangeably throughout most of their history, but currently they are showing signs of diverging. As adverbs they continue to be used interchangeably whenever spatial, temporal, or metaphorical distance is involved. But when there is no notion of distance, further is used <our techniques can be further refined>. Further is also used as a sentence modifier <further, the workshop participants were scarcely optimistic - L. B. Mayhew>, but farther is not. A polarizing process appears to be taking place in their adjective use. Farther is taking over the meaning of distance <the farther shore> and further the meaning of addition <needed no further invitation>. {edit}Fix my typos. Nothing like misspelling stuff from dictionary. :) Alex Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. -- Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) Edited by a6l6e6x April 7, 2003, 11:28:25 PM EDT OK. So, I check my Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. Tenth Edition. further (adv) - 1. farther farther (adv) - 1. at or to a greter distance or more advanced point However, under usage it says: Further and farther have been used more or less interchangeably throughout most of their history, but currently they are showing signs of diverging. As adverbs they continue to be used interchangeably whenever spacial, temporal, or metaphorical distance is involved. But when there is no notion of distance, further is used <our techniques can be further refined>. Further is also used as a sentence modifier <further, the workshop participants were scarcely optimistic - L. B. Mayhew>, but farther is not. A polarizing process appears to be taking place in their adjective use. Farther is taking over the meaning of distance <the farther shore> and further the meaning of addition <needed no further invitation>. Alex Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. -- Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) Collapse All History
Post #94,967 by Ashton 4/8/03 12:20:00 AM Reply	Although the moon is smaller than the Earth, it is farther away.
Post #94,969 by rcareaga 4/8/03 12:27:06 AM Reply	the serendipitous LRPD for this post, when first I checked it, was "A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away..." Odd, no? cordially, "Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist."

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