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[doyle]

Fic question: is it hippy, hippie, or are both acceptable? Google's giving me both options.

(Ah, that's hippy/hippie as in a flower child, not as in Giles'-drawing-of-Buffy-in-Hush)

Comments

[petzipellepingo.livejournal.com]

As a person who came of age in the 60s, I say "hippie".

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

Ah, thank you!

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

I shall jump you for more fic questions: were there beanbag chairs in the 60s or was that a 70s thing?

[captainlucy.livejournal.com]

Beanbag chairs may have had their hayday in the '70s, but they were definitely around in the '60s. I think I remember seeing them in a couple of episodes of "The Prisoner", and definitely in some eps of "The Avengers". Besides which, my mum had one when she was a teenager! :)

[chicken-cem.livejournal.com]

Both decades qualify. They were really 'cool' when I was a kid in the 70s, and I was so jealous of the kids that had them.

[makd.livejournal.com]

Seconding petzipellepingo.

oh, and "hippy"? Indicates an excess of avoirdupois in the hip area.

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

I've looked up a couple of books and it seems to be a British versus American spelling (I'd never seen 'hippie' and would never have thought of it prior to reading some stuff about the Sixties via google)

[raskazzptitsa.livejournal.com]

Both are pretty acceptable by the general population, but stick with hippie. Or you may get angry letters (it's kind of a sticking point for some people).
(<--Eschewed the whole "goth" phase in high school to instead to the "hippie" thing. All pictures from that era have been duly burned.)

[kben.livejournal.com]

I would say "hippie". But both are acceptable according to Webster's New World Dictionary.

[jidabug.livejournal.com]

My interpretation would be thus:
hippy: One who has child-bearing hips
hippie: A member of the counter-culture

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

*g* See, I'd never seen it spelled 'hippie' till I started researching for this fic. Possibly a Brit versus American thing, or I've just read a lot of stuff by people who mis-used it...

[jedi-penguin.livejournal.com]

*blinks in surprise* Were they called "hippies" in Britain? I thought that particular movement was largely an American thing, and mostly restricted to the west coast at that.

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

My parents, in rural Northern Ireland, were flower children. I have the hideously embarrassing photographic evidence...

[owl]

ROTFLMAO!!!

I'm SO glad my parents were too busy acquiring higher education in the 70s to become flower children...

[meko00.livejournal.com]

Well, not native but I've always thought

hippy = someone with wide hips is...

hippie = those flower-power persons

Or what do you mean, exactly?

[fenwic.livejournal.com]

Erm, we're talking about, say, a '60s Flower Child, right? If so, either spelling is acceptable. I'm pretty sure (and dictionary.com agrees) that hippie is preferred.

If you mean hippy as in "Do these culottes make me look hippy?", then I'm not so sure...

[slackerace.livejournal.com]

Hippy is someone with large hips. Hippie is flower child.

[stakebait.livejournal.com]

What you said. :)

[callmesandy.livejournal.com]

As a student of American History in college (lo, those ten years ago), in the materials I saw on the sixties I never saw anything other than hippie. Which is, of course, biased sample, but I think it's the more acceptable version of it.

[captainlucy.livejournal.com]

In "British" English, it is now and always has been "Hippy". The scripts to the Young Ones always had that spelling when referring to Neil. :D

In "American" English, it is now and always has been "Hippie".

Generally, though, both spellings are acceptable. It could be useful (possibly even comedic!) to have British characters (Giles or Spike) using "Hippy" whiler the American characters use "Hippie".

;)

[petzipellepingo.livejournal.com]

Bean bag chairs were around in the 60s as were making curtains between the door jams out of the pop tops on soda cans. Don't forget the prominent shades of the day were day glo orange and yellow.
Ack, now I've got a headache remembering the hideous decorating of my mis-spent youth.

[petzipellepingo.livejournal.com]

BTW, we never called ourselves "hippies". That's what other people referred to us as. We would use phrases like "flower children". Hee, hee "power to the people".