I have read comments where "where" (or any given adverb) can be classified as either a relative adverb or as a conjunctive adverb, as in the following Shakespeare examples:
1)
Macbeth 1.5.62-63
LADY MACBETH: Oh, never shall sun that morrow see!
Your face, my thane, is as a book where men may read strange matters.
2)
I Henry VI 5.4.86-91 “gloomy” (Shakespeare coinage)
PUCELLE:
Then lead me hence, with whom I leave my curse: may never glorious sun reflct his beams upon the country where you make abode…
How should "where" be classified in a dictionary when it modifies a noun preceding it? Is this a matter of "to each their own"?
Erin, this is Scott Nelson again (idiom synonym dictionary). Wonderful updating of your wordnik site -- so cool. One question I have about the entries -- If a retrieval for a word with the spelling of "off-brand" says, "Do you mean "off brand", does that mean that the hyphenated spelling is preferred? dictionary.com automatically directs the spelling of "off brand" to "off-brand". I need to know for my dictionary database how your site determines preferred spellings regarding hypenated/non-hypenated. (P.S. I may show up at the next DSNA conference again. Would be nice to see you.)
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Phrasal commented on the user Phrasal
I have read comments where "where" (or any given adverb) can be classified as either a relative adverb or as a conjunctive adverb, as in the following Shakespeare examples:
1)
Macbeth 1.5.62-63
LADY MACBETH: Oh, never shall sun that morrow see!
Your face, my thane, is as a book where men may read strange matters.
2)
I Henry VI 5.4.86-91 “gloomy” (Shakespeare coinage)
PUCELLE:
Then lead me hence, with whom I leave my curse: may never glorious sun reflct his beams upon the country where you make abode…
How should "where" be classified in a dictionary when it modifies a noun preceding it? Is this a matter of "to each their own"?
Scott
January 9, 2012
Phrasal commented on the user Phrasal
Erin, this is Scott Nelson again (idiom synonym dictionary). Wonderful updating of your wordnik site -- so cool. One question I have about the entries -- If a retrieval for a word with the spelling of "off-brand" says, "Do you mean "off brand", does that mean that the hyphenated spelling is preferred? dictionary.com automatically directs the spelling of "off brand" to "off-brand". I need to know for my dictionary database how your site determines preferred spellings regarding hypenated/non-hypenated. (P.S. I may show up at the next DSNA conference again. Would be nice to see you.)
January 6, 2012