Talk:Oxford "-er"

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Help with this template Comments: "-er"/Comments|action=edit}} edit – "-er"/Comments|action=history}} history – "-er"/Comments|action=watch}} watch – "-er"|action=purge}} refresh Why is this part of OU project? It is not to do with the University as such. It's about linguistics. BONNUIT 05:26, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

I thought Worcester was Wuggers.--217.134.89.203 18:28, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

"Muggles" (for "non-magic people"), derived from "mug", is virtually an '-er' coinage

How can "Muggles" be seen, even "virtually", as an example of the Oxford '-er'? Flapdragon 00:11, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

I certainly heard "Wuggins" in my time, but have inserted "Wuggers" as well. I think "Muggles" can be regarded as a near-"-er" (Partridge allows for such forms), but perhaps since it's a literary invention, it's stretiching a point anyway.

The vowel sound at the end of -le in UK English is the same as in -er (pedants might disagree by referring to the first a syllabilsed consonant but it is practically the same), the only real difference is the 'l'.GordyB 14:58, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Twickers

From the first sentence of the Twickenham Stadium article:

Twickenham Stadium (usually known as just Twickenham or Twickers) is a stadium located in the Twickenham ...

Does that make it an Oxford "-er"? --Philip Baird Shearer 15:39, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "Butters"

The adjective butters, abbreviated from "butt ugly", is a 21st century example of the "-er" as "street" slang[.] I don't have the publication cited in support of this etymology to hand, but it seems distinctly improbable at first glance. "Butt ugly" is scarcely a common usage in the UK. My understanding was the term derived from "butterface" (as in "Nice body, but her face...") DublinDilettante 19:06, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Oxford University Project; why?

Why has this article been appropriated by the OU project. It's to do with wider linguistics. And who accorded it "start" class? BONNUIT 05:25, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Nobody has appropriated anything; an article can be within lots of projects simultaneously. I have just rated it as low importance within the University of Oxford WikiProject. The rating as start class reflects the Oxford section only and seems reasonable to me. Jonathan A Jones (talk) 08:51, 29 May 2008 (UTC)