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Mr. Tom Posted 8 years ago
Vocabulary

Stertorously vs. noisily

Hi

Could you please tell me how you would find these sentences in everyday English?

He was snoring stertorously.

His breathing was less stertorous now.

I checked the difference between snoring noisily and snoring stertorously on Google Ngram. It seems that both were equally in use in the 1970s.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=snoring+stertorously%2Csnoring+noisily%2Csnoring+heavily&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Csnoring%20stertorously%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Csnoring%20noisily%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Csnoring%20heavily%3B%2Cc0

Thanks,

Tom

  

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Mr. Tom I checked the difference between snoring noisily and snoring stertorously on Google Ngram. It seems that both were equally in use in the 1970s.

— Mister Micawber

  • Mr.
  • Tom I checked the difference between snoring noisily and snoring stertorously on Google Ngram.
  • It seems that both were equally in use in the 1970s.
  • So use 'heavily'—that is what your Ngram suggests is a more common collocation.
  • 'Stertorously' has been used 18 times in the 20 years 1980-2000, and few are familiar with the word; most would confuse it with 'stentoriously'.
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Mr. TomI checked the difference between snoring noisily and snoring stertorously on Google Ngram. It seems that both were equally in use in the 1970s.

So use 'heavily'—that is what your Ngram suggests is a more common collocation. 'Stertorously' has been used 18 times in the 20 years 1980-2000, and few are familiar with the word; most would confuse it with

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