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Aug 9, 2002, 9:11pm

[View Quote] > is more extreme than "worse"; and there is no "worser" or "worsest".
>
> That made no sense. You said they're not intensity differences then say
> they are.

Um, perhaps if you weren't so quick to cut out what I was replying to you would understand the context. Go back and reread it. I was referring to your spelling differences (hence why I said "those are spelling differences"). The difference between "worse" and "worst" isn't JUST one of spelling but of intensity also.

> They are interchangable though, as says the couple of dictionarys that I
> have looked at in the past 10 minutes. They have the exact same meaning,
> just different spellings.

Don't know what kind of wacky dictionaries you're using but dictionary.com says "worse" is a comparative (http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=comparative) while "worst" is a superlative (http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=superlative).

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