The Mud Puddle

By royal decree, an adverbjective is any word that sounds like it is or should be a word, but isn't. So far, this includes:

• Superlative Adverbs

  Replacing -ly with -lier; e.g., happilier = "more happily".

• Weird Adverbs

  Replacing -ly in adjectives that already end in -ly with -lily; e.g. sillily = "in a silly manner"; earlily = "in an early manner" ("She arrived earlily.")

• Adverbs Used to Describe the Actions of Actors

  Replacing -ly with -lily; e.g., angrilily = "in a manner suggesting an angry manner"; sillilily = "in a manner suggesting a silly manner" ("He walked so sillilily that we were all convinced that he was actually walking sillily.")

• Words that Sound Like They Should Be Words, or Could Be Words, But Really Aren't

  • cantagreenous
  • fastisio
  • adverbjective

In other news, I've accepted "their" as a genderless third-person singular pronoun. Thank you very much.

And if you ever meet a wizard, ask him to conjure a void. Then get back to me with the results.

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