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Re:Airbus will stop building the A380 in 2021 by pault on Thursday February 14, 2019 @09:44AM (#19162190)
Sorry to be that guy, but further is typically used for figurative distances, while farther is preferred for literal distances. I always remember this because it was a plot point in a crappy movie with Sean Connery.
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Re:Airbus will stop building the A380 in 2021 by logifail on Thursday February 14, 2019 @04:36PM (#19166289)
OED says not so clear-cut:

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/usage/farther-or-further

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Re:Airbus will stop building the A380 in 2021 by pault on Thursday February 14, 2019 @04:56PM (#19166458)
> typically used
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Re:Airbus will stop building the A380 in 2021 by mark-r on Thursday February 14, 2019 @12:33PM (#19163815)
That wouldn't be The Avengers, would it? That movie was so bad that I've blocked out all memory of it, other than to remember how bad it was. It does tend to confuse people though when I tell them the worst movie I've ever seen was The Avengers.
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Re:Airbus will stop building the A380 in 2021 by mark-r on Thursday February 14, 2019 @04:25PM (#19166203)
In case it wasn't clear, I was NOT talking of the Marvel movie with the same name.
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Re:Airbus will stop building the A380 in 2021 by godson_drafty on Thursday February 14, 2019 @10:40AM (#19162676)
Thank you. I've been meaning to look that up for years.
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