![]() It has too much “voice” it is too loud and too judgemental, as its use of opinionated also shows. This is a nonce-word the ad-hoc creation of voicey is in keeping with that note’s observations, as this is a colloquial and undignified-sounding word that’s here synonymous with preachy, meaning that it is tediously moralistic or sententious. as beery, catty, churchy, jumpy, newspapery, piggy, tinny. the suffix has been used still more freely in nonce-words designed to connote such characteristics of a person or thing as call for condemnation, ridicule, or contempt hence such adjs. From the early years of the 19th cent.Later new derivatives tend in a large measure to be colloquial, undignified, or trivial, as bumpy, dumpy, flighty, hammy, liney, loopy, lumpy, lungy, messy, oniony, treey, verminy, vipery some are from verbs, as dangly. to which it is addedĪfter describing many developments in Old English and Middle English, the OED notes: The general sense of this suffix is ‘having the qualities of’ or ‘full of’ that which is denoted by the n.The OED entry on this suffix is rather long, but the critical sense is immediately given by: Viewers vote for the people they want to see on the live with Voice. After 10-20 minutes, things begin to get more interesting. They play music, have a drink or two and give their viewers a few moments to join. That article was about the different roads businesses take to irrelevance, and the death of The Village Voice is tied up in that idea.But it’s more while The Village Voice has suffered from long-term mismanagement, the reason for its impending death is simpler. Voice and Penny start their live stream on Voice’s Instagram account at 9 PM AST (8 PM EST). Here the base word is clearly voice, which retains the ‑e‑ when the ‑y is appended as it does in dice > dicey, space > spacey, unlike in ice > icy, price > pricy. The one other time I’ve written about The Village Voice was back in 2010. ends in e preceded by a vowel, the e is retained, as bluey, gluey in other cases there may be variation, as homey, homy, liney, liny, nosey, nosy. ![]() ending in y, the convention of modern spelling requires it to be spelt ‑ey, as in clayey, skyey, wheyey. The voice returns very village voicey full You can read the statement in full below: The only thing that is clear now is that we have not reached that destination. In Middle English it was variously spelled ‑i, ‑ye, ‑ie. The ‑y suffix, in certain cases spelled ‑ey, is a productive Modern English suffix deriving from Old English, where it was spelled ‑ig, much as in our cousin tongues Dutch and German. This is often done to convert between word-classes, such as from noun to adjective. English is a language that’s free to create ad-hoc words by applying productive affixes to existing words via derivational morphology.
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