<p>Hey Dunn,</p>
<p>Your estimates match my meanings for those words.
I was raised in NY.</p>
<p>I agree. Few and several overlap.</p>
<p>Where I grew up (in the south), we used bedroom shoes, bedroom slippers and house shoes interchangebly but never referred to them as simply slippers.</p>
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<p>This is not a regional difference. “Continuous” means unbroken. “Continual” means recurring. If it has been continually raining since yesterday, the rain has started and stopped multiple times. If it has been continuously raining since yesterday, the rain has not stopped since it started yesterday.</p>
<p>If we want to make this a true fight, bring up the “couch”, “sofa”, “davenport”, and “divan” controversy.</p>
<p>BAfromBC – I just love the way you say “Worcester.” … I also went to school in MA (moved there from MO – fortunately, a Boston-born neighbor prepared me for the “tonic” thing). On my first day in town, I went into a Bailey’s or a Brigham’s (it was 1973 – Steve’s and the other places didn’t even exist yet – the first Steve’s Ice Cream open in the spring of 1974, I believe, in Davis Square, Somerville) and order a milk shake. Well, you know what they gave me, of course: flavored milk! Important question: Is a “real” milk shake still called a frappe out there?</p>