Did you hear it?The adverbial form of “big?”
During Monday night’s debate, Donald Trump said that Hillary Clinton would raise taxes “bigly,” right? It’s a word that Trump has apparently used before and fans of proper grammar are going slightly berzerk.
Anyone else concerned about the use of the “word” bigly by a presidential candidate, not once but twice? #bigly? #notaword
— Dylan Hoffman (@DylanLHoffman) September 27, 2016
#Trump supporters you realize your candidate said BIGLY twice during a Presidential debate? He’s punking you bigly #debatenight
— MichaelaAngela Davis (@MichaelaAngelaD) September 27, 2016
He seriously said BIGLY. my kids laughed at that. Alex: “BIGLY isn’t a word, but it rhymes with Wrigley. Let’s watch the Cubs instead.”
— Kyle Engelhardt (@KyleEngelhardt) September 27, 2016
purposely, cousin of bigly, not to be confused with purposefully
— John Hendrickson (@JohnGHendy) September 27, 2016
Him #bigly mad. #debatenight
— Keefer Sutherland?? (@steenfox) September 27, 2016
Holt: “This is Clinton’s time to speak.”
Trump: “Shut-up, Lester! Donald Trump is more bigly than rules! Period!”#DebateNight— Craig Rozniecki (@CraigRozniecki) September 27, 2016
“For a grandiose figure who demonstrates, at least in public, a limited, essentials-only vocabulary, it would make sense that this wordlike entity appeals to him,”Slate’s Jim Newell wrote. “Big is your simplest adjective for something that is, well, big—in scope or size. And what to do if you need to express this in adverb form, as our loquacious entertainer frequently does? Append a -ly to the end of that sucker, per the elementary school heuristic. Bigly.”
But, could he be saying “big league?”
.@realDonaldTrump: I’m going to cut taxes big league and you’re going to raise taxes big league. End of story.” #debatenight #Debates2016 pic.twitter.com/uSDL23nlDB
— Fox News (@FoxNews) September 27, 2016
According to aCNN transcriptof Trump at theMilwaukee Republican Presidential Town Hall, Trump said:”I wouldn’t have Mexico laughing at us how stupid we are with trade deals, and at the border.I wouldn’t let Japan get away what they’re doing with, you know, devaluation of the yen.China big league devaluation.” “It’sbig league,” Trump campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks told Slate, “It’s big league.”
You be the judge.
