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ram280	Post subject: fusty festivals Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2004 6:15 am
Joined: Wed Apr 07, 2004 12:01 am Posts: 37 Location: Pennsylvania	It's that time of year. How do you all handle "festivalgoer."<p>My dictionary lists "partygoer" but is silent about those festive festival folk. Any thoughts?
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SusanV	Post subject: Re: fusty festivals Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2004 10:55 am
Joined: Thu Apr 18, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 1399 Location: In the newsroom	Our style for almost all combining forms, goer included, is solid, with some exceptions. Ugliness, unfortunately, does not always count as an exception.
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Matthew Grieco	Post subject: Re: fusty festivals Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2004 12:04 pm
Joined: Mon Mar 10, 2003 1:01 am Posts: 2266 Location: New Jersey	I would agree with rendering all "-goer" words solid, but I would use only the more common ones: churchgoer, partygoer, beachgoer, etc. "Festivalgoer" is a bit too out there.
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drew4au	Post subject: Re: fusty festivals Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2004 8:00 pm
Joined: Fri May 17, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 102 Location: A compromise between Man's Euclidean determinations and Nature's beguiling irregularities.	This may sound stupid, but if the story is about a festival, do you actually need to call the people mentioned in it festivalgoers? Why not just call them people? <p>Reminds me of the local news spoof on Mr. Show where three youths and their companions get lost in the woods. And it's uncertain whether they're lost together, whether the youths and companions are lost seperately, or whether each youth is lost with his or her companion.<p>Guess you have to see it ...<p>I'm a horrible copy editor.
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Bumfketeer	Post subject: Re: fusty festivals Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2004 9:45 pm
Joined: Fri Nov 15, 2002 1:01 am Posts: 3557 Location: Cusp of retirement, grave or both	Next...
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secretsquirrel	Post subject: Re: fusty festivals Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2004 12:11 am
Joined: Fri Jul 02, 2004 12:01 am Posts: 10 Location: I'm always on location.	<blockquote><font size="1" face="TImes, TimesNR, serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Bumfketeer: Next...<hr></blockquote><p>Brutal.
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