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Is there a difference between:

  • "For more information, please contact..."
  • "For further information, please contact..."
  • "For additional information, please contact..."

If there is a difference, what is the difference?

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  • What did your dictionary or dictionaries tell you? I'd say start there.
    – Maverick
    Commented Oct 16, 2015 at 18:23
  • As far as I understand it, the basic message from the dictionary is that the words are synonymous but context is everything and dictionary isn't really going to pick up on that.
    – E_L
    Commented Oct 23, 2015 at 8:32

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In this specific case, there is no difference between the words.

In terms of how professional they sound, further and additional both sound significantly better than more.

All of this is, however, a matter of taste and style.

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If "further" and "additional" sound "significantly better," it's only because they satisfy clichés and the belief that extra syllables = elegance or intelligence, when really they add nothing but bombast. In conversation you would never say "for further" or "for additional information." Spoken, those phrases seem pretentious. Because they are.

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