Eyrie, eyry, aerie and aery
Hi
It's interesting to note that an eagle's nest has so many words (made from one, of course) and spellings. I want to know which one is most common among native speakers. Also, the pronunciation please.
Eyrie
Eyry
Aerie and
Aery
Thanks,
Tom
Top answer
It's always worth using an ngram for this; I've done so and the clear winner is 'eyrie', which has appeared in written texts much more than the others over time. It's certainly the one I would use as a British English speaker. Aerie is the second commonest and is used a bit more these days; I imagine it's to do with a style shift towards archaic spellings in certain genres of literature.
- It's always worth using an ngram for this; I've done so and the clear winner is 'eyrie', which has appeared in written texts much more than the others over time.
- It's certainly the one I would use as a British English speaker.
- Aerie is the second commonest and is used a bit more these days; I imagine it's to do with a style shift towards archaic spellings in certain genres of literature.
- The 'y' ending versions appear to be less common; I can honestly say I've never seen anyone use them before.
- I would always pronounce them the same way - EAR-ee, the same as the word eerie.
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It's always worth using an ngram for this; I've done so and the clear winner is 'eyrie', which has appeared in written texts much more than the others over time. It's certainly the one I would use as a British English speaker.
Aerie is the second commonest and is used a bit more these days; I imagine it's to do with a style shift towards archaic spellings in certain genres of literature
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