Funner vs Dunner - What's the difference?
funner | dunner |
(humorous, nonstandard) (fun)
* 1979, Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention in Wyoming, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency
* 1992, Ana Malinow Rajkovic, Manual for (Relatively) Painless Medical Spanish [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN029275146X&id=6MVFwbhxaT0C&pg=PP15&lpg=PP15&dq=funner&sig=d5BINTBWGlKwMJu78EG3p1TSGWg]
* 2000, Julia Bourland, The Go-Girl Guide [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0809224763&id=MMkjJFEnojgC&pg=PA300&lpg=PA300&dq=funner&sig=4u7kb12DOAmU8tPlh9vX_QjE2yA]
As an adjective funner
is (humorous|nonstandard) (fun).As a noun dunner is
thunder.funner
English
Adjective
(head)- "I wish I would have played basketball when I was out. It's a lot more funner ."
- Sounds like a great vacation, doesn’t it? It would be much funner , undoubtedly, to spend four weeks learning intensive Spanish in Guadalajara... but what do you expect for this price?
- Every wardrobe needs an all-purpose cocktail dress, but these are often funner if you can find a retro party dress in flawless shape at a vintage clothing store.
Usage notes
While funner'' is a regular comparative of the adjective ''fun'', the comparative ''more fun'' is much more common. The use of ''fun'' as an adjective is itself still often seen as informal''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language'', 4th edition, 2000. (web version)or casualEdith Hope Fine, Judith Pinkerton Josephson, ''More Nitty-Gritty Grammar,'' 2001. [http://www.bartleby.com/61/11/F0361100.html] and to be avoided in formal writing, and this would apply equally to the comparative form. Merriam-Webster gives ''fun'' as an adjective without comment, and states that ''funner'' and ''funnestare "sometimes" used[http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=fun&x=0&y=0.
