Mistakes and Grammar (was: It's over, Snape is evil)

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 138616

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jessica Bathurst" 
<ragingjess at h...> wrote:

zgirnius:
> >Did he really say "huger"?  It just sounds wrong.

Jessica:
> It makes Dumbledore sound like a stoner, but it's right, according to 
> dictionary.com.  I can't believe I looked this up - down, grammar 
geek Jess!

Geoff:
It sounds odd but Dumbledore is being grammatically correct. In 
English, monosyllabic adjectives form their comparative and superlative 
forms in -er and -est. It is only multisyllable words which use "more" 
and "most". 

I think it's because we rarely use these forms with "huge". When 
something is described as being huge, you are not usually making a 
comparison,; it's a definitive statement - similarly with enormous. So 
Dumbledore is certainly using the language unusually.