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Aug 9, 2002, 10:26pm

"Worst"
> 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.

Move on through, that's not what it says. Read it again yourself.
"...those are spelling differences, not intensity differences. 'Worst' is
more extreme than 'worse'." By using extreme you're saying that are
different intensities, but in the sentence earlier your just said they're
not different in intensity. I think you put the "not" in the wrong spot.

> 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).

That's nice, did you put in worse and worst themselves? It shows identicle
information even using that as one of my "wacky dictionaries". Right on.

--Bowen--

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