In Australian and New Zealand English, farther is not very common. We use further to mean both ‘at a greater distance’ and ‘in addition, moreover’.

Farther is used more in the US and UK where some writers attempt to split the meanings, saying farther relates to distance and further to ‘moreover’.

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