partyer, partier ???
Simon
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.
Robert Bannister
I'd call it newspaper-speak, but I'd have no difficulty in understanding
either in context.
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UC
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.
I can't imagine why.
Try 'reveler'.
>
> Does anybody know if they are American English and not British English?
Irrelevant.
>
> Happy New Year,
> Simon.
Mike Lyle
Oxford lists "partyer" only as a variant; I can't tell where its only
"y" example was written, but OED certainly found the word on both sides
the Atlantic.
<Forms: 19- partier, partyer.
A person who enjoys giving or attending parties; a party-goer.
1965 J. HART File for Death xii. 94 Jinsie most certainly did not care
for the 'partiers'. 1973 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia)
16 Sept. 13/3 Women are generally neater than men, he concedes, and are
not partiers. 1989 Shareware Mag. June-Aug. 23/1 Partyers were on the
dance floor. 2001 Sunday Herald (Glasgow) 12 Aug. (Seven Days section)
5/6 I'm not a big partier, though I'm not a shut-in either.>
As you know, the general rule is to change "y" to "i" before vowels
other than "i"; but in this case I'm hesitant. That's because leaving
it as "y" signals more clearly to the reader what's being done: it's
not common in writing, and my mind half wants to interpret "partier" as
some French word I don't know.
--
Mike.
tinwhistler
Searching Google-News for "partiers" I got hundreds of hits for the US,
a great many from Canada, some from Australia, India, Cayman Islands,
Taiwan, Pakistan, Kenya -- but none from the UK. Some of the countries
seem to use the term only when speaking of political party members,
while others clearly are referring to reveling boozers or some such
ilk. "Partyers" got about one-sixth as many hits, all from the US and
Canada except for one from New Zealand.
Aloha- ~~~ Ozzie Maland ~~~ San Diego
Martin Ambuhl
The _Shorter Oxford English Dictionary_ tends to mark words and terms
that are principally North American, but its entry is:
partier, noun. /"pA;tI@/ colloq. M20. [from PARTY noun + -ER1.]
A person who likes to give or attend parties; a person at a party.
There is no such marking as not being BrE.
Nor does MWCD11 mark it as principally AmE or BrE, but it does give both
spellings.
CyberCypher
I've heard only "party-goer", "party-girl", and "party-animal".
"Partier" seems to me to imply that A has more parts than B has or that
A's party is more of a party than B's party. "Partyer" seems a
reasonably objectionable spelling to me. I don't like "partier", but I
would understand the clause "When the partiers arrived".
--
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the Omrud
> 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.
>
> I can't imagine why.
>
> Try 'reveler'.
Is that a US spelling? I spell it "reveller".
--
David
=====
Skitt
> UC had it:
>> Simon wrote:
Yup. OK.
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Peter Moylan
sense if we knew what it was a reply to.
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Richard Heathfield
> On 12/11/19 21:28, mamakic...@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> Either spelling is acceptable if you're in America. Now if you're on
>> the other side of the Atlantic Ocean i wouldn't have the foggiest
>> clue. Have a nice day.
>
> This is the partiest post I've read today. I suppose it would make more
> sense if we knew what it was a reply to.
> 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?
>
> Simon.
The following day, eight replies (by various people) were added to the
thread, which then died... until now.
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Peter T. Daniels
> On 12/11/19 21:28, mamakic...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > Either spelling is acceptable if you're in America. Now if you're on
> > the other side of the Atlantic Ocean i wouldn't have the foggiest
> > clue. Have a nice day.
>
> This is the partiest post I've read today. I suppose it would make more
> sense if we knew what it was a reply to.
where a silly question is asked. (You don't even need to look at the
original message from New Year's Day 2007.)
Snidely
>> On 12/11/19 21:28, mamakic...@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>>> Either spelling is acceptable if you're in America. Now if you're on
>>> the other side of the Atlantic Ocean i wouldn't have the foggiest
>>> clue. Have a nice day.
>>
>> This is the partiest post I've read today. I suppose it would make more
>> sense if we knew what it was a reply to.
>
> On 1 January 2007, "Simon" (no surname) posted the following question:
>
>> 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.
>
> The following day, eight replies (by various people) were added to the
> thread, which then died... until now.
/dps
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Ian Jackson
<pe...@pmoylan.org.invalid> writes
>
>> Either spelling is acceptable if you're in America. Now if you're on
>> the other side of the Atlantic Ocean i wouldn't have the foggiest
>> clue. Have a nice day.
>
>This is the partiest post I've read today. I suppose it would make more
>sense if we knew what it was a reply to.
>
in print, I immediately think of ladies' nylon stockings and tights.
[Note that I deny that I'm a sex maniac.]
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Ian