On 2/21/2018 11:45 AM, David Starner via Unicode wrote:
On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 9:40 AM John W Kennedy via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org> wrote:
“Curmudgeonly” is a perfectly good English word attested back to 1590.

Curmudgeony may be identified as misspelled by Google, but it's got a bit of usage dating back a hundred years. Wiktionary's entry at [[-y]] says "This suffix is still very productive and can be added to almost any word.", and that matches my feeling that this is a perfectly good word, a perfectly wordy word, even if it wouldn't be used in formal English.

Normally the ending -ly would mark an adverb. But not in this case. Which may be why some people feel consciously or not that the "l" is extra.

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