In article <5b4f0$459b686b$3e18e6cb$20436@news.vispa.com>,
Richard Polhill <richard.news@polhill.vispa.invalid> wrote:
> Simon wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Being that time of year I have a festive question.
> > Both the words partyer and partier are listed by dictionary.com:
> > http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/partier
> >
> > However I haven't found either of these two words in any other on-line
> > dictionary.
> >
> > Does anybody know if they are american english and not british english?
> >
> > Happy New Year,
> > Simon.
> Hmm not sure the word exists as such but can legally be built by adding -er
> suffix to party. Partier cannot possibly be correct, however.
Are you British? "Partier" is the common American word; "partyer" looks
British to me. Btw, how do you spell our word "flier" (made by adding
"er" to "fly", after changing the Y to an I, because that's the rule
when adding ER)?
> Rather than make up words it would be better to use party-goer or reveller as
> they carry the intended meaning.
Those work, too :)
Don't be too hard on the evolving language -- even the editors of OED
recognize a dozen or two new "made-up" words as "official" every year.
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