How Does Fun Make It's Way From Noun to Adjective?

Many modern sources grudgingly accept that fun can also be used as an adjective. Nouns can be used to modify other nouns, called attributive nouns. In the phrase, sugar cooky, sugar is a noun, but it's being used in an attributive way to describe the cooki. Attributive nouns do the same thing as adjectives - you say i ate a sugar, cooky oi ate a yummy cooki. If people accept that fun is an ctive, they should accept thatfun can be inflected like other adjectives. But even people who do accept this are unlikely to embrace funner and funnist. It seems

Transcript

Play full episode

The AI-powered Podcast Player

Save insights by tapping your headphones, chat with episodes, discover the best highlights - and more!

Get the app