• wia@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    Something expensive is spendy. Something that melts is melty. What’s the trub, bub?

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      4 months ago

      Something expensive is spendy.

      My dictionary doesn’t think so, heh. Webster seems to say “chiefly Northwestern US” so that may explain it. I remember rolling my eyes and thinking that it sounded like something a self-important jackass would say. (edit: the first time I heard it, I mean).

      I don’t think I’d ever use it, but I also don’t see it as weird or wrong anymore. Melty is fine. Slippy still grates on me a bit, but I can let it slide.