http://www.word-detective.com/2011/05/further-farther/ Semper Ubi Sub Ubi Wed, 20 Mar 2013 19:32:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.word-detective.com/2011/05/further-farther/comment-page-1/#comment-37095 Warsaw Will Sat, 07 Apr 2012 12:27:10 +0000 http://www.word-detective.com/?p=4940#comment-37095 Just to add to what you have said, this distinction seems to be largely a North American preoccupation. In the UK, Fowler's prediction seems to have largely come true, and <i>farther</i> is now rarely used, even for distance. As can be seen in this <a href="http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=farther+than%2Cfurther+than&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=6&smoothing=3" title="Ngram graph - farther than, further than" rel="nofollow">Ngram graph</a> Just to add to what you have said, this distinction seems to be largely a North American preoccupation. In the UK, Fowler’s prediction seems to have largely come true, and farther is now rarely used, even for distance. As can be seen in this Ngram graph

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