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Welcome to another mini-cast from Away With Words, I'm Grant Barrett.

This summer we're running through some unfinished business by airing a few calls that we couldn't

fit into a regular episode.

We'll be back with full brand new shows in the fall.

Carol called us from Tucson, Arizona. She's a biologist

and one of her colleagues keeps criticizing her use of an adverb that she

made out of an adjective. So she asks, is it okay to just add an LY to a word to make a brand new adverb?

Can you really just add prefixes and suffixes to make a new word to suit your purposes?

We hash it out.

We've had this controversy now for several years,

so I was calling you to see if you could weigh in on on.

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