Timeline for Underneath / Beneath for hidden things
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| Mar 15, 2017 at 15:07 | vote | accept | SovereignSun | ||
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| Dec 8, 2016 at 12:38 | comment | added | Damkerng T. | I think we sometimes use formality interchangeably with register, though it's probably better to separate them. It's true that beneath may be used more often in some registers, and some of these registers happen to be usually rather formal. Having said that, I don't think this except from Aesop's Fables in Rhyme for Little Philosophers sounds any formal at all. "A tired lion, after hunting lay asleep beneath a great and shay tree. [...] Beneath his paw. "Have mercy, Sire!" cried she, "You are too big to kill poor little me." | |
| Dec 7, 2016 at 10:13 | comment | added | SovereignSun | @TRomano With all due respect you are still very stubborn! I have edited my question, now is that better? | |
| Dec 7, 2016 at 10:03 | comment | added | TimR | Thank you. I'm a native speaker, have taught English at university level, have studied Old English and Middle English (and Early Modern and Modern English), so I'm not just talking out my ass. | |
| Dec 7, 2016 at 10:00 | comment | added | SovereignSun | @TRomano You are solid rock you know that? | |
| Dec 7, 2016 at 10:00 | history | edited | SovereignSun | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 7, 2016 at 9:59 | comment | added | TimR | beneath is not used as frequently as under but there's nothing especially formal about it. It's certainly used in everyday speech. And Cambridge does not say it is a strictly formal usage, merely that it is found more often in formal contexts than not. | |
| Dec 7, 2016 at 9:51 | comment | added | SovereignSun | @TRomano Why do I have to point at evidence? dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/beneath | |
| Dec 7, 2016 at 9:46 | comment | added | TimR | beneath is not informal, but neither is it formal. | |
| Dec 7, 2016 at 9:44 | comment | added | SovereignSun | @TRomano Every dic. and article I see says that! i have to re-reedit my questions because of you! | |
| Dec 7, 2016 at 9:43 | history | edited | SovereignSun | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 7, 2016 at 9:42 | comment | added | TimR | Sorry, it's just neutral register, not formal. | |
| Dec 7, 2016 at 9:41 | comment | added | SovereignSun | @TRomano Okay. but "beneath" is definitely formal! | |
| Dec 7, 2016 at 9:37 | comment | added | TimR | -1 for "can feel" and for the mistaken notion that "underneath" is a formal way to say "under". | |
| Dec 7, 2016 at 9:05 | answer | added | JeremyDouglass | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 7, 2016 at 8:36 | answer | added | Mick | timeline score: 3 | |
| S Dec 7, 2016 at 8:13 | history | suggested | JeremyDouglass | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| S Dec 7, 2016 at 8:12 | history | suggested | JeremyDouglass | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 7, 2016 at 7:59 | comment | added | SovereignSun | That's the very first question i looked through before posting my own. It not really clear to me. | |
| Dec 7, 2016 at 7:56 | comment | added | JeremyDouglass | Check out this discussion of under / underneath / beneath and related words: ell.stackexchange.com/questions/78355/… | |
| Dec 7, 2016 at 7:38 | history | asked | SovereignSun | CC BY-SA 3.0 |