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

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.)

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

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

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?

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...

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

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.

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".

;)

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.

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".

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