Pricey vs. Pricy - English Language Usage Stack Exchange First of all, dictionaries list both spellings, and pricy is generally listed as a variant spelling of pricey, not the other way round, at least in the dictionaries I have checked (Merriam-Webster, Wiktionary, New Oxford American Dictionary, American Heritage Dictionary, Cambridge Dictionaries Online)
word usage - When to use pricier and when to use costlier . . . Pricier or Costlier? Which is appropriate and for when? Example sentence: The documentation says "managed disks" are costlier than "un-managed disks" The documentation says "managed disks" are pri
meaning - English Language Usage Stack Exchange 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 OED entry on this suffix is rather long, but the critical sense is immediately given by:
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What is the origin of pretty as slang for somewhat? I think it goes back much further, to the Latin 'pretiosus' meaning pricy, valuable, expensive - hence its early adjectival use in the phrase 'a pretty penny' Pretiosus comes from the Latin 'pretium' meaning a price
meaning - Salty in place of expensive? - English Language Usage . . . I don't know if 'salty' is used in the same sense in other languages, but at least here in Finland, we might use it like your friend did: "This apartment is way too small for the rent to be that salty", meaning that the rent of the apartment is too pricy and doesn't correspond to its surface area
Is it falsy or falsey? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange I have seen both spellings of this word, falsy and falsey It can mean "something that is equivalent to false" in computer science, such as "The only two falsy values in the Ruby Language are fals