Miss Elaine Eos schrieb:
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> 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)?
>
"Flyer" also exists - particularly in the sense "advertising circular" -
see <http://m-w.com/dictionary/flyer>.
>
>>Rather than make up words it would be better to use party-goer or reveller as
>>they carry the intended meaning.
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> 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.
>
It's no so much a dozen or two, it's more usually several hundred per
year - although a lot of them are new meanings for existing words.
Regards, Einde O'Callaghan
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