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Thread #136865 Message #3127606
Posted By: MGM·Lion
03-Apr-11 - 10:38 AM
Thread Name: Player - ist?
Subject: RE: Player - ist?
For more than two syllables, one could take off final vowel & add -ist: e.g. concertinist ~ and even, sometimes just for 2 syllables, which is what one does, after all, for cello.
But doesn't sound right for all ~ banjist: no, not really. Nor violist. Nor tubist.
Adding a letter, as in lutenist, can work sometimes.
All a matter of what sounds right, as always: that thing called "The genius of the language"....