Macmillan Holdings, LLC. Grammar Girl, Grammar Girl's, QDnow, and Quick and Dirty Tips are all trademarks of Macmillan Holdings, LLC. It depends on whether you think "fun" is an adjective. wongers grammar i actually heard Matt Damon use the word "funnest" in an interview before Steve Jobs. But no matter who said it first. It just isn't right!! http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/is-funnest-a-word.aspx?commentid=19330#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/is-funnest-a-word.aspx?commentid=19330#Comments Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:03:23 GMT john grammar Blah, blah, blah...how about the answer already!!! http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/is-funnest-a-word.aspx?commentid=19301#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/is-funnest-a-word.aspx?commentid=19301#Comments Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:55:16 GMT John grammar I believe that the "funner/funnest" battle is just an extension of the death of -er and -est. People seem more likely to say 'more red' and 'most red' because they sound less colloquial than "red" and "redder." I would also characterize this issue as a part of the larger "Unfounded Grammar Phenomenon", in which people would rather say "This is a picture of Bob and I" instead of "...Bob and me" because they think the subjective form sounds more correct than the objective. I think I'll have the funnest day of my life. http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/is-funnest-a-word.aspx?commentid=18965#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/is-funnest-a-word.aspx?commentid=18965#Comments Mon, 07 Sep 2009 19:13:00 GMT Tony grammar English has a lot of exceptions. I understand that one-syllable adjectives should use the -er and -est suffixes, but I feel that if fun gets accepted as an adjective in formal speech, an exception should be made for the word, and he proper uses should be "more fun" and "most fun" simply because it sounds much better. http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/is-funnest-a-word.aspx?commentid=18645#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/is-funnest-a-word.aspx?commentid=18645#Comments Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:32:56 GMT <a href="http://www.insegment.com">internet marketing</a> grammar The fun continuum. I like it. I took a linguistics class a few years ago, and my professor's big pet peeve was actually people who's pet peeve was proper use of the english language. Her point: all languages are in flux, and we should take joy in the changing nature of language. I tend to agree... but that DOESN'T mean we should make dumb mistakes like they're their and there. Those differences are important to meaning, just as "funnest" has a different meaning than fun and funner. http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/is-funnest-a-word.aspx?commentid=18505#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/is-funnest-a-word.aspx?commentid=18505#Comments Wed, 19 Aug 2009 03:31:48 GMT Charles grammar I see the word "fun" as a noun that can be used as an adjective in a similar way to "oil", for example. You have the "oil industry" and you can have a "fun industry". "Funny industry" would mean something else. Can you say "oiler" and "oilest"? It sounds strange to me. You can also create the adjective "oily" the same way as "funny". Now you can say "oilier" or "oiliest". I think that adjectives that are created from nouns without changing it are uncomparable. You can have a "waste bin". Can you have a "waster bin"? I do not know the terminology, but this type of adjectives cannot be inflected. To me, "We had fun at the party." sounds normal. "It was a fun party." sounds to me like that the party's intend was to make fun. If you are interested, I was born in 1992 in a non-English speaking country (Czech Republic) but now I have been living in western Michigan, USA for almost a year. I have to tell you, them Americans hear do nut care about their English very much. http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/is-funnest-a-word.aspx?commentid=17465#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/is-funnest-a-word.aspx?commentid=17465#Comments Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:33:45 GMT jumbles grammar I approve wholeheartedly of your perspective/gripes. "Funnest" is American at its worst. I was born in 1978, for your interest. http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/is-funnest-a-word.aspx?commentid=16990#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/is-funnest-a-word.aspx?commentid=16990#Comments Fri, 15 May 2009 17:51:12 GMT Peter grammar I have to admit that when I saw the word "funnest" to describe the latest iPod, it just rubbed me up the wrong way. However, the fact that Grammar Girl is opposed to "funner" and "funnest." but has no problem using "gotten", is a little disturbing too. So "funnest" means most expensive, right? http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/is-funnest-a-word.aspx?commentid=16124#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/is-funnest-a-word.aspx?commentid=16124#Comments Sun, 15 Mar 2009 03:20:49 GMT Mike grammar Funnest is not a word. Neither is funner. It's 'more fun' and 'most fun.' Some words do not take the -er or -est endings. Another one is 'important.' You wouldn't say "She is importanter than him." You just have to remember when to use each one. There's not always a works-every-time, black and white rule for grammar. In fact there usually isn't! http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/is-funnest-a-word.aspx?commentid=16102#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/is-funnest-a-word.aspx?commentid=16102#Comments Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:39:35 GMT moksha grammar Using words is like casting spells. The word "funest" with one "n" means "disastrous." Regardless of whether "funnest" is a word (it's not), why would Jobs want to make that word association anyways? Also, I have to agree with JP that if Mac doesn't recognize it as a word, why would its Maker? "Like Father like Son" doesn't quite work in this equation. http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/is-funnest-a-word.aspx?commentid=16100#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/is-funnest-a-word.aspx?commentid=16100#Comments Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:19:35 GMT Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:03:23 GMT http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/is-funnest-a-word.aspx feedback@quickanddirtytips.com (Managing Editor) feedback@quickanddirtytips.com (Webmaster) en-us