18 February 2010

"Friendlily"

Apparently it's a word.  I encountered it in a book by O. E. Rolvaag and wondered if it was an inept translation of the Norwegian phrase "in a friendly manner."  But it's in the OED with that meaning, and even in Random House, not as a separate entry but as an adverb sublisting under the adjective friendly

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