Timeline for Truefully vs Truthfully -- interchangeable?
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| Oct 11, 2017 at 4:59 | comment | added | shoover | @Carl If we're talking about wheels, "trueness" is more commonly found than "truefulness", by about 1000:1. google.com/search?q=wheel+"trueness" vs google.com/search?q=wheel+"truefulness" | |
| Oct 10, 2017 at 21:41 | comment | added | Bob Jarvis - Слава Україні | "Truefully" isn't word I've ever heard in spoken English. You might find it in a dictionary, but on the street? Not so much... | |
| Oct 10, 2017 at 18:44 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Oct 10, 2017 at 18:28 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | I don’t really understand this. You link to the definition of trueful, which says “Loyal, faithful”. If you look up truthful in the same dictionary, you’ll see that it means something completely different. So clearly they’re not the same, essentially or non-essentially… | |
| Oct 10, 2017 at 17:47 | vote | accept | Grass H0PEr | ||
| Oct 10, 2017 at 12:09 | comment | added | nekomatic | I think trueful should be revived as a portmanteau of true and rueful, to be used for describing the regretful expression of a fact. | |
| Oct 10, 2017 at 12:05 | comment | added | AncientSwordRage | @Carl a wheel is true when it forms a perfect circle without deformations. When is a wheel considered true? | |
| Oct 10, 2017 at 8:41 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/917671332954992640 | ||
| Oct 10, 2017 at 0:38 | comment | added | Carl | "The wheel spins because of its truefulness". ??? | |
| Oct 9, 2017 at 23:13 | answer | added | Xanne | timeline score: 41 | |
| Oct 9, 2017 at 22:51 | comment | added | Simon B | Most people would think that truefully was a typo, and would want to correct it to truthfully. That includes my spell checker! | |
| Oct 9, 2017 at 22:46 | comment | added | Andrew Leach♦ | Well, the explanation that it's from Middle English (1150–1470) would imply some sort of history. | |
| Oct 9, 2017 at 22:45 | answer | added | Colin Fine | timeline score: 16 | |
| Oct 9, 2017 at 22:44 | history | edited | Andrew Leach♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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