Re: partyer, partier ???

Chris Croughton wrote:
> On Fri, 05 Jan 2007 09:36:43 +0000, Richard Polhill 
>    <richard.news@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
>> Richard Polhill wrote:
>>
>>> This is exactly the model for preferring 'partyer' to 'partier' as an 
>>> adjective 'party' is implied by the second spelling. Imagine if you
will 
>>> as sentence involving the compound noun 'party wall' - close in
meaning 
>>> to the original French root 'partie': a share - perhaps it could
become 
>>> acceptable to describe a one wall as 'partier' than another. ;-) I
know 
>>> it sounds awful as there is no adjective 'party', but it would conform

>>> to normal English evolution to extend an existing usage this way.
>> No response to that? Not even a ROFL?
> 
> Usenet is not a real-time medium (nor even a small), patricularly for
> low-traffic groups like this one and at the holiday season.
> 
Normally get faster responses to the sort of drivel I spouted. ;-)


>> Pah! What are the newsgroups coming to? ;-)
> 
> A sticky end, like a currant bun.
> 
Which end is the end on a currant bun?

> BTW, I agree with you about the endings, and that neither spelling looks
> like a real word...
> 

I think Mirriam-Websters have accepted party as a verb whereas Oxford, 
Chambers, et al haven't.

And it *looks* wrong, damn it.