As far as I know, "quickly" has been the adverb form and "quick" the adjective form for some time now. Dictionaries often list "quick" as a colloquial adverb only and not a formal one. However, when I work with ESL students, I tell them that the boundaries between colloquial, informal, and standard are quickly blurring in regards to (among other things) the -ly suffix. I believe that one can say things like, "You got here quick" and "He got away as quick as possible" without being marked as colloquial in many discourse circles. I suppose that the morphological marker carries less and less meaning and importance as English develops. When the -ly marker stops being critical for communication and starts just being a part of an ettiquette checklist, it will go away entirely, like so many of its morphological ancestors. John Alexander On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 6:56 PM, Brett Reynolds <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > > On 14-May-09, at 6:57 PM, John Alexander wrote: > > I've been amazed at the loss of the derivational suffix -ly that routinely > marks adverbs. > > > Is this a change? Some words, such as *quick* have always had both the * > -ly* version and the plain one available as adverbs. Or do you mean > something else? > > Best, > Brett > > ----------------------- > Brett Reynolds > English Language Centre > Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning > Toronto, Ontario, Canada > [log in to unmask] > > > > > To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface > at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html and select "Join or > leave the list" > > Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/ > To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html and select "Join or leave the list" Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/