LOL! Steve, I have given up on trying to understand the English language, spelling or
otherwise. During the past twenty years or so I have been working mostly with people
with English as their second language. Trying to explain to them spelling and such is
enough to drive a person crazy. Try to explain to a Polish person how to polish something
using the written words in English - makes for a lot of laughs.
Or such phrases, I too went to two different stores to get two bottles of wine...
Chris - a guy with too many hobbies,does that make me a hobbiest or a hobbyist?
--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, Steve Greenfield <alienrelics@...> wrote:
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> I should start off by pointing out that I obsess sometimes. This one has been bugging
me for years.
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> Hobbiest would mean that you are the most hobby, as in earliest means that you are the
one who is most early.
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> () A suffix used to form the superlative of adjectives and adverbs; as, smoothest;
earl(y)iest.
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> The proper spelling is "hobbyist" as in "ist" meaning one who does or one who is skilled
in or occupied with.
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> 1. a person who does, makes, or practices (the thing specified): words so formed
correspond to verbs ending in -ize or nouns ending in -ism moralist, satirist
> 2. a person skilled in or occupied with;So saying you are a hobbyist is accurate;
saying you are hobbiest is just arrogant. ;')
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> OK, got that bit of nonsense off my chest.
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> Steve Greenfield
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