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- Lighter vs. brighter - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
I'm trying to find information about the grammatical correctness of interchanging lighter and brighter in the sense of: I turned on the lamp and the room became lighter I turned on the lamp
- light at the end of the tunnel earliest occurrence
In April of 1947, when the Commission began its work, that dim light at the end of the tunnel was so dim as to be no light at all Russia, an Russia only, among the great nations of the earth, has been unwilling to take those steps which might make that dim light brighter
- Which is higher — hyper-, ultra- or super-?
In American English, 'ultra-' feels more extreme than 'super-' (by association with it's usage in gasoline varieties), and 'hyper-' is just of another kind altogether and so is not comparable (i e there is 'hyperactive' but no 'superactive', there is 'supermarket' but no 'hypermarket')
- I am searching for a word or phrase that describes reflected light . . .
More specifically, a caustic is where light is either reflected or refracted such that it is concentrated in an area that is brighter than the surroundings -- so it's the bright lines that are seen on the bottom of a swimming pool, but not the space between them (even though that space also is receiving reflected or refracted rays)
- Blond hair and Fair hair - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Blonde is brighter than fair It has the following - either, or both: lighter toned overall more yellow in it It tends to look 'sunnier' and more dramatic, brighter than fair hair There's also a much whiter blonde - like an Icelandic or Nordic blonde - 'ice blonde' As seen in 'Legolas' the warrior elf in the movie 'The Lord Of The Rings' c 2001
- Whats the origin of -er vs. -re endings?
Noah Webster on '-er' and '-re' word endings (chiefly '-ter' and '-tre') One dedicated opponent of - re endings of the type that the poster has in mind was Noah Webster Here is his discussion of such words in A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language (1806): We have a few words of another class which remain as outlaws in orthography These are such as end in re, as sceptre, theatre
- etymology - Conundrum: cleverer or more clever, simpler or more . . .
Counting Google hits is a notoriously bad estimate for how common something is; Google Ngrams shows simpler is fifteen times more common than more simple Putting the whole sentence in doesn't make much difference
- It was still bright light outside. Is one of these incorrect?
Oh, I'd say (2) in that case Maybe still a bit light for emphasis Bright would mean considerably, um, brighter; also lighter
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