Re: USAGE: Survey
| From: | Muke Tever <hotblack@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, July 7, 2005, 22:10 |
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On Wed, 06 Jul 2005 15:22:25 -0600, Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> wrote:
> As others have said, i think i'd generally avoid the issue by using
> "lightning" as a noun, but #2 sounds definitely better to me than #1.
> "It was thundering and lightning out last night" sounds like a
> violation of parallelism, using _thundering_ (a verb) and _lightning_
> (a noun) together like that. It'd *have* to be "thundering and
> lightninging" in my dialect.
Google's got 3600+ hits of "thundering and lightning" though.
The '...and lightninging' gets 182 hits, with Google suggesting lightning.
*Muke!
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