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Mehrdad
Is it wrong to say.... I haven't felt well lately... Usually I see recently in place of lately. Thank you in advance.
22 de jul. de 2019 9:53
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Here are Google Ngrams on the frequency of "recently" and "lately." In American English, "recently" surpassed "lately" about 1860.
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=recently%2Clately&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=17&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Crecently%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Clately%3B%2Cc0
In British English, "recently" surpassed "lately" about 1890.
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=recently%2Clately&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=18&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Crecently%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Clately%3B%2Cc0
22 de julio de 2019
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They are interchangeable with no difference in meaning. Recently is more common. The Collins online dictionary gives "recently" as among the 4000-most-common words and increasing in frequency over the last 100 years.
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/recently
The Collins online dictionary gives "lately" as among the 10,000-most-common words and decreasing in frequency over the last 100 years.
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/lately
22 de julio de 2019
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You should say " I haven't been feeling well lately" , because lately has a continuous meaning
22 de julio de 2019
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