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Teo Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

funner / more fun

When fun is used as an adjective to modify a noun, what is its comparative form, funner or more fun?

Which is correct, a more fun place or a funner place?
  

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Teo When fun is used as an adjective to modify a noun, what is its comparative form, funner or more fun ? Which is correct, a more fun place or a funner place ? "funnier"

  • Teo When fun is used as an adjective to modify a noun, what is its comparative form, funner or more fun ?
  • Which is correct, a more fun place or a funner place ?
  • "funnier"
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TeoWhen fun is used as an adjective to modify a noun, what is its comparative form, funner or more fun?

Which is correct, a more fun place or a funner place?

"funnier"
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Fun as an attributive adjective is a relatively new and still informal usage.
Usage Note: The use of fun as an attributive adjective, as in a fun time, a fun place, probably originated in a playful reanalysis of the use of the word in sentences such as It is fun to ski, where fun has the syntactic fun
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Funner is considered a misspelled word by Microsoft Word Spell Checker. Besides, a Google search found 115,000 results for a more fun and only 23,500 results for a funner. Although some people may use funner as the comparative of fun, I don't think funner is common or standard.



The world is getting to be a funner
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Teo I don't think funner is common or standard.

I agree Teo, and it would not be a fun day in a future where it might become so.
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Davkett
Teo
I don't think funner is common or standard.

I agree Teo, and it would not be a fun day in a future where it might become so.

And for me, the bottom line is: it sounds just horrid!
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Funner is considered a misspelled word by Microsoft Word Spell Checker. Besides, a Google search found 115,000 results for a more fun and only 23,500 results for a funner. Although some people may use funner as the comparative of fun, I don't think funner is common or standard.

Teo,
I hope you don't think that "
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0Hi,02br
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00As noted, it's non-standard. If you want to speak or write standard English, you'd need to rephrase it as something like 'more amusing' or 'more enjoyable'.02br
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00Best wishes, Clive0-
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0 Look it up in the dictionary...the correct word is actually funner 0-
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0 What dictionary did you consult? 0-

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