Finance would be correct:. Nothing could be further from the truth. Unless the distance from the truth is measurable, the correct word is further. Need further explanation? See the American Heritage Dictionary. The writer should know that farther refers to physical distances and further for nonphysical measurement. According to the American Heritage Dictionary :. Many writers since the Middle English period have used farther and further interchangeably. A relatively recent rule, however, states that farther should be reserved for physical distance and further for nonphysical, metaphorical advancement.
The Usage Panel has favored this rule for some time. While the use of both adverbs was acceptable in these examples in our survey, only 62 percent accepted the use of further in the drive sentence quoted above, and only 58 percent accepted farther in the research example.
Approval of usage following the rule was nearly unanimous. After further investigation of the Yahoo! Could this word be any further from correct?
Not really, unless the yahoo. That would be way further from the right word:. The adverb farther should be used for physical distances only; use further for nonphysical advancement. I understand why non-rhotic speakers would want to change farther to further because farther and father would be homonyms. And I understand why farrer would have changed to farther. It is amusing to imagine how a non-rhotic speaker would even say "farrer.
I had a neighbor from Boston who introduced himself as "Kaah. January 18, pm. If there were such a word as "farrer", the "r" would be pronounced by non-rhotic.
It remains when there's a vowel after it. There's a YouTube ad for Grammarly in which the listener is encouraged to obtain the software in order to avoid "airs". Perhaps if you imagine that the word "farrer", if it existed, would be pronounced by some people more like "farr" then you could imagine the "r" then getting lost in non-rhotic accents… except that in BrE at least this wouldn't occur. Rose Eneri, While "rise" on its own can be used to mean a pay rise, British speakers often qualify it as "pay rise", which avoids any ambiguity.
According to the OED, "raise" can be used in AmE to refer to any increase, not just in pay — but this perhaps a rare usage and at any rate can't be confused with the colloquialism "get a rise out of ". Citations include. Spaeth Fifty Years with Music xvi. China's central bank governor Thursday ruled out the possibility of a raise in interest rate this month. Sense 3 of "raise" at M-W is " an increase in amount: such as a : an increase of a bet or bid b : an increase in wages or salary" — so no indication there that it is used to mean an increase in prices, costs or rates, which are among the AmE senses attested by the OED.
I think it's clear: it's a nominalisation of the verb 'raise', and therefore used only where the verb would be appropriate. I would say 'raise' only for an increase voluntarily done by the employer. One could extend this to other situations than pay, and that's what your other two OED examples are: someone 'raised' prices; the bank may 'raise' interest rates. I wouldn't be surprised to hear of a 'raise' in water level by the person with control of said water level, but someone merely affected would call it a 'rise' or 'increase'.
In my own speech I dissimilate deliberately by pronouncing the first r alveolar and the second bunched in a word like 'mirror', but there's no IPA symbol for that. While 'furthermost' does indeed seem to be the standard form, I would not consider 'farthermost' to be wrong. I inquire again: do people that say 'further' exclusively also say 'furthest' exclusively for the superlative form? Michael Watts: And despite the spelling 'arrhythmia' I'd bet people still say it 'a-rhythmia'. Is the 'rr' is your examples due to dissimilation of aspirates?
After all, Greek does certainly allow 'rrh' between vowels. Andrew Usher I would use farthest as seldom as I do farther, yes. January 20, am. It was meant as a joke, after different concepts of freedom right to bear arms vs. All the same, I wouldn't recommend nude sunbathing in the gut-totin' Bible Belt. January 20, pm. Well, I can accept it as a joke, if it was just a joke. Honestly I'd never think about 'nude sunbathing' at all. But given your following joke? I'm entirely unsure that I can understand your sense of humor, and I know what 'nas what ras' refers to.
January 21, pm. Experts said it was likely that the NSA or FBI had approached other Internet companies with the same demand, since they evidently did not know what email accounts were being used by the target. The NSA usually makes requests for domestic surveillance through the FBI, so it is hard to know which agency is seeking the information.
Under laws including the amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, intelligence agencies can ask U. Disclosures by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and others have exposed the extent of electronic surveillance and led U.
Companies including Yahoo have challenged some classified surveillance before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, a secret tribunal. Apple Inc made a similar argument earlier this year when it refused to create a special program to break into an encrypted iPhone used in the San Bernardino massacre. It deals with physical distance. A physical distance is a distance that can be measured using a tool like a measuring tape or a ruler, though it may take quite a few of them for large distances!
Further means at or to a greater distance the same meaning as farther. So what's the difference? Further deals with non-physical distance, instead of physical distance. Non-physical distance cannot be measured using a tool like a ruler. It is often helpful to think of non-physical distance as an imaginary path. For example, movement progression in time, a course of study, a career, or a conversation.
Knowing the difference between farther and further is something many people struggle with. However, if you can just remember one tip, you'll never mix them up again.
Just know that farther only deals with physical distance, while further deals with non-physical distance.
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