Poll Muskellunge Nickname - Musky or Muskie?

[djkimmel]

Help me out with some decisions in a non-critical poll. When you think about muskellunge (and they're not eating your bass... or even when they are...) do you think musky or muskie if you typing it or maybe going to search it on the Internet? I.e. How to keep musk/y/ie from eating my bass?

Even if you don't think about them very often or hardly at all, maybe only one time, what do you think? Thanks.

[djkimmel]

Not very many votes... is everyone out hunting?

[Dan]

Being of Irish/English ancestry I'd have to go with Musky, but as the grammarians say, it depends on its part of speech, noun or adjective, so both could be a correct form. However, if you're not sure you safe going with toothy critter,  or is that toothie critter?

y or ie?
As a general rule: -y is an English suffix, whose function is to create an adjective (usually from a noun, eg creamy); -ie was originally a Scottish suffix, whose function is to add the meaning of "diminutive" (usually from a noun, eg beastie).

So in most cases, where there is dispute over whether a noun takes a -y or an -ie ending, the correct answer is -ie: she's a girly girl, but she's no helpless girlie. Think also scrunchie, beanie, nightie, meanie ... There are exceptions (a hippy, an indie band), but where specific examples are not given, use -ie for nouns and -y for adjectives

[Mike S.]

WOOHOO!!! I'm in the top 75%. 

[karol]

 what did Dan say? i thought i knew english but i guess not, something about the defurberator not cosignapting with the collagator, right? thought so..karol

[EKennedy]

So...if it's a boy fish - Musky.   A girl fish - Muskie.

[djkimmel]

Sounds good...

[SethV]

I was gonna vote "trash fish", but since that was not available, I think "Musky"

[djkimmel]

I'm surprised a little to see ie doing so well here. Very interesting.

[MadWags]

Because that is the way it is spelled! Maybe we should chug on down to mambie pambie land and get you some self confidence you jack wagon!

I love that commercial!

[djkimmel]

Thanks... I was not sure if it was 'nambie pambie' or 'mambie pambie' and now I know.

Tissue...?

[thedude]

muskie.

"musky" is an adjective used to describe an odoriferous anomaly.

[Skulley]

Because that is the way it is spelled! Maybe we should chug on down to mambie pambie land and get you some self confidence you jack wagon!

I love that commercial!

Me too!!!


BD                       

[djkimmel]

muskie.

"musky" is an adjective used to describe an odoriferous anomaly.

NO WAY you just used 'odoriferous anomaly' in a sentence!!

[Waterfoul]

muskie.

"musky" is an adjective used to describe an odoriferous anomaly.

NO WAY you just used 'odoriferous anomaly' in a sentence!!

He probably heard it some where before... maybe from Cy.

[thedude]

actually my sister-in-law's husband's little brother with whom i went to high-school with turned that phrase for the first time. I don't why it matters....every word you use you heard from someone else first

[djkimmel]

Not true. I have invented new words several times.

In fact... the same spammer just tried to sign up for the 3rd time. I'm thinking of a new word right now that I intend to use in my email to him/her!!

[thedude]

ok fine - every "real" word you've ever used you heard from someone else.

[djkimmel]

Maybe if you include 'read' in there...??

I guess after seeing the results of this poll and another one I ran somewhere else, the only decision might be to buy muskymuskie.com if I wanted a muskie website that covered everyone?!?

[Got Fish??]

 Why not spell it Muskiey and be done! As far as calling it a trash fish. Maybe to a bass angler it may be a toothy pesky predator. As an adversary. It is a Worthy opponent. Takes many hours out on the lake for every fish caught.