I'm not positive, but I might have overheard Andy tell someone he "felt badly" about something tonight. YOWCH! The only way you can "feel badly" is if you burn your fingertips. You would never say, "I feel happily" or "I feel sadly" or "I feel well about this meeting" (although "I feel well" is OK if you are using well as an adjective meaning healthy), so don't say "I feel badly." It makes me feel bad when you use an adverb with feel.
I nailed one of the editors of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on this one last week...he had a 10-question copy editing quiz in the paper one day, and in the process of providing the answers, he said "don't feel too badly (sic) if you missed this one." Hoo-hah - I was on him like a duck on a June bug. And afterwards, I felt *good*.
Posted by: Steve | June 24, 2004 at 05:01 PM