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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)

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[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)