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Is it shyer or more shy 2024?

Charlotte Harris | 2023-05-12 06:48:41 | page views:1842
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Ethan Miller

Works at SpaceX, Lives in Los Angeles. Graduated from California Institute of Technology (Caltech) with a degree in Aerospace Engineering.
3 Answers. Both versions are acceptable in today's standard English. In the 2002 CGEL page 1581: Monosyllabic dry and shy are optionally exceptions to the y-replacement rule, allowing either y or i before the suffix: dry ~ dryer/drier ~ dryest/driest and shy ~ shyer/shier ~ shyest/shiest.
2023-05-22 06:48:41

Benjamin Brown

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3 Answers. Both versions are acceptable in today's standard English. In the 2002 CGEL page 1581: Monosyllabic dry and shy are optionally exceptions to the y-replacement rule, allowing either y or i before the suffix: dry ~ dryer/drier ~ dryest/driest and shy ~ shyer/shier ~ shyest/shiest.
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