View Full Version : Here's a stupid, pointless question for everyone. Muskie can be spelled either "muskie" or "musky." Which do you prefer?
foamboard
05-26-2003, 03:36 PM
ToddM
05-26-2003, 07:42 PM
You spell it musky. Every other spelling, is well, canadian!:+
Musky Mike
05-27-2003, 05:02 AM
Guess my board name says it for me....;)
suckerchucker
05-27-2003, 06:43 AM
this muskie spelling survey has a musky odor....
foamboard
05-27-2003, 08:19 AM
This is "Muskie" Central... That's gotta count for somthin'. But I do read "Musky" Hunter so... God, my poll is stupid!!
spell check on word will allow for musky, but underline muskie. Not that really matters...JIm
Worm Drowner
05-27-2003, 10:29 AM
I prefer "musqueigh" myself.............
Foamboard
05-27-2003, 10:32 AM
Nice! I'm using that from now on.
Hiya,
Both Webster's and the American Heritage dictionaries allow either spelling. (Am. Heritage even allows 'maskalonge' which is really off the wall). A lot of people, including a few writers who really ought to know better, seem to want to use 'musky' as the plural (as in 'there are a lot of musky in that lake'), but the plural is always 'muskies.'
Oddly enough, the plural of 'pike' is 'pikes,' which sounds goofy to me for some reason, and which nobody really uses but the Europeans.
So - it's a pick 'em...
RK