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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:
>
> I should start off by pointing out that I obsess sometimes. This one has been bugging 
me for years.
> 
> Hobbiest would mean that you are the most hobby, as in earliest means that you are the 
one who is most early.
> 
> () A suffix used to form the superlative of adjectives and adverbs; as, smoothest; 
earl(y)iest.
> 
> The proper spelling is "hobbyist" as in "ist" meaning one who does or one who is skilled 
in or occupied with.
> 
> 
> 	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. ;')
> 
> 
> OK, got that bit of nonsense off my chest.
> 
> Steve Greenfield
>