yes. hippie would be the "press word" or official spelling. but since it is a created word, hippy is just as valid as any second/variant spelling.
Does it really matter? If you're at peace with yourself and others, it doesn't matter what you label yourself. Labels themselves set limitations. There is an official way to spell it, but if you want to say hippy. Please proceed. Aswell as Hipppppppppeeeee or Hippie, it's all the same to me.
right it does not really matter... but I needed to know because I wanted to create a blog that would include the word hippie and wanted to make sure I use the right spelling
Its hippie, hippy basically means as much as a person with hips. But.. I think both are excaptable, a word is only what meaning you give to it, and you give hippie and hippy the same meaning.. then its probably both!
I always spell it with -ie. I'm not sure on what's considered correct spelling on this one. I suspect it's hippy though, it conforms to English better, becaue -ie in english is usually only used in plural (i.e. HippIEs). So I think it's officially 'hippy', but always write 'hippie' because it looks more natural and familiar for me that way. And your personal experience is what matters most. In Dutch, it's definitely hippie.
Originally "hippy" with the ie for plural. Now the dictionary lists both: World English Dictionary hippy or hippie 1 (ˈhɪpɪ) — n , pl -pies a. (esp during the 1960s) a person whose behaviour, dress, use of drugs, etc, implied a rejection of conventional values 1965, New York Times editor and usage writer Theodore M. Bernstein said the paper changed the spelling from hippy to hippie to avoid the ambiguous description of clothing as hippy fashions. (the "ie" spelling gets a better one in that dictionary, haha hip·pie [hip-ee] Show IPA noun a person, especially of the late 1960s, who rejected established institutions and values and sought spontaneity, direct personal relations expressing love, and expanded consciousness, often expressed externally in the wearing of casual, folksy clothing and of beads, headbands, used garments, etc. Also, hippy. Compare flower child. hippie (ˈhɪpɪ) — n a variant spelling of hippy Personally, although the ie spelling has become more popular, I like the Y spelling. I named my blog with the Y spelling: http://hippycommune.wordpress.com/ but I tag it with the ie spelling
It was hippy during the 60's. I was there and I am guessing the people who are saying hippie weren't. I don't know when hippie came into being used.
Probably when clothing brands realized they needed a marketing ploy that looked neater in the 80's or 90's
I always thought hippy was the singular,then hippie(s) the plural, as in poppy and poppies. It's very hippie to ignore the issue though lol.
Nope - other way around. Many people who were there have memory problems. For the evidence of hippie being preferred over hippy in the 1960s, see the Google NGram link: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=hippie%2Chippy&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Chippie%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Chippy%3B%2Cc0
That graph doesn't mean much without breaking down who used which spelling. As I said in 2007, hippie was the media/academia word. Still is. But narrative from the counterculture may use either. It would be like graphing "hipster" and drawing the conclusion that the bird-on-everything bicycling trucker hat wearing hipsters have existed since the late 1940s. Same word, different meaning.
That fits well with the old patterns of English grammar. Hippy makes better sense as an adjective, hippie as a noun.