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Tinanam0102 Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary

marvelous and rattling

Dictionary says they are synonyms, including howling

A marvelous collection of rare books. Can you check the follwoing sentences:

A howling collection of rare books
A rattling collection of rare books

Would they be acceptable in meaning and grammatical?

Thanks
TN
  

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Hi, These are definitely obsolete for the USA. I don't know if they are current in the UK, or elsewhere. Even when they were still used in the USA, it was in expressions like "howling good" or "rattling good", never just "howling " or "rattling" used by itself to show approval.

— PeteMcManus

  • Hi, These are definitely obsolete for the USA.
  • I don't know if they are current in the UK, or elsewhere.
  • Even when they were still used in the USA, it was in expressions like "howling good" or "rattling good", never just "howling " or "rattling" used by itself to show approval.
  • Pete
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Hi,

These are definitely obsolete for the USA. I don't know if they are current in the UK, or elsewhere. Even when they were still used in the USA, it was in expressions like "howling good" or "rattling good", never just "howling " or "rattling" used by itself to show approval.

Pete
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Hi PeteMcManus,

Thanks for explaining it to me.

TN
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