Is "morely than" commonly used?

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Sorry, I don’t where this question actually goes, but here it is:

I was watching a Monyt Python sketch yesterday. They were talking about how “Nation fought nation, but no nation fought nation [color=#400080]morely[/color] than . . .”

Is that still a commonly used construction in modern British English? Just curious ‘n’ all. Over on this side of the pond, we’d say such a silly thing in this way: “No nation fought nation moreso than . . .,” or simply, “. . . more than . . . .”

Not that it matters. Not that there’s anything WRONG with that.

Oops, I mean on the side of the pond I was on a couple days ago.

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No HC it’s not used at all. Just a bit of Python silliness.

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Yeah, it doesn’t even sound like English!

Kids tend to say ‘morely’ when they want to say ‘somebody +verb+ed some more’ sometimes. Usually only very young kids.

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It’s morley safer just to say more.

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I’m glad to hear that I won’t be hearing that any morely. :doh: Thanks for setting me straight!

Edit* Woops! I forgot that Divea is still signed in, but it is I, Housecat, who made this post and this edit! (I’m hanging at Divea’s crib at the moment–very cool! But I think I’ll sign out and back in again now.)

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See, here I am! (And no, I did not see any moderatorly stuff!)

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Moderatorly stuff is actually quite boring. We usually just exchange recipes. But it’s morely than less boring than The Great Unwashed (the Teeming Millions).

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housecat, what’s with your hidden impulse versus Python. First it was “Wuthering Heights By Semaphore”, and now you’re on about “Ypres 1914”.
Next you’ll want to catch the Ewen Mcteagle Sketch,
youtube.com/watch?v=Kc_iWPnjtCI
or in fact, The Society.
youtube.com/watch?v=1f-kfRREA8M

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[quote=“TheGingerMan”]housecat, what’s with your hidden impulse versus Python. First it was “Wuthering Heights By Semaphore”, and now you’re on about “Ypres 1914”.
Next you’ll want to catch the Ewen Mcteagle Sketch,
youtube.com/watch?v=Kc_iWPnjtCI
or in fact, The Society.
youtube.com/watch?v=1f-kfRREA8M[/quote]

Hmmm, I thought I was impulsing quite openly. Thanks for the fab links, Gingerman! :wink:

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Moderatorly stuff is actually quite boring. We usually just exchange recipes. But it’s morely than less boring than The Great Unwashed (the Teeming Millions).[/quote]
Hey I resemble that statement! I wash at least once a month, sometimes twice if there’s a lunarly eclipse :raspberry:

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At present, Google finds just 418 instances of this phrase, with this thread at the top of the results.

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My best friend’s dad showers once a week whether he needs to or not! And that is NOT a joke!