Re: COMELY My A@@

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Posted by antimaven (Ranked 164 on Scrabble (Zone) Ladder) on June 12, 2002 at 06:46:32:

In Reply to: Re: COMELY My A@@ posted by Jheronimus (Gold Member) on June 10, 2002 at 20:08:51:

The issue here is the level of vocabulary being considered, as, for example, formal, literary, colloquial, slang, etc. COMELY is indeed a relatively ordinary literary word; it is not particularly frequent in workaday conversation. I suspect, based on my personal observations, that its conversational usage is more frequent in Britain than in North America. (E.g., "Aye, she's a comely lass.")

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: : The issue here is the level of vocabulary being considered, as, for example, formal, literary, colloquial, slang, etc. COMELY is indeed a relatively ordinary literary word; it is not particularly frequent in workaday conversation. I suspect, based on my personal observations, that its conversational usage is more frequent in Britain than in North America. (E.g., "Aye, she's a comely lass.") : : anti

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