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McAnally's (The Community Pub) => Author Craft => Topic started by: Qualapec on August 08, 2006, 12:13:03 AM

Title: Change in recent years
Post by: Qualapec on August 08, 2006, 12:13:03 AM: Something I've noticed that's kind of new with the Sci-fi/fantasy industry is that people are begining to spell fairy like faerie. Why the change? I kinda figured it was political correctness to avoid...uh...trashy remarks to sexual orientation?

Then again I'm probably looking way too much into it. Chances are it's just something cool that somebody did and now it's slowly spreading. (because I personally prefer the 'fae' spelling myself.)

Well, either way, I was wondering if anybody had any ideas what that was about.

~She-Wolf
Title: Re: Change in recent years
Post by: Mickey Finn on August 08, 2006, 03:24:31 PM: It's got to be due to fae. I believe faerie is an older spelling, as well, but I could be wrong.

I've always spelled it fae and Faerie.
Title: Re: Change in recent years
Post by: Richelle Mead on August 08, 2006, 04:48:48 PM: Yeah, I agree it's more of a resurrection than a creation of a new term. And let's not forget the recent magic vs. magick spellings that popped up in the early 90s.
Title: Re: Change in recent years
Post by: Qualapec on August 08, 2006, 07:02:11 PM: I figured it was an old english spelling. I'm just asking about the sudden change and why most books I run into spell it with the fae spelling. Is there a reason behind it?

~She-Wolf
Title: Re: Change in recent years
Post by: Valiar Marcus on August 09, 2006, 05:07:50 AM: Quote from: Qualapec on August 08, 2006, 07:02:11 PM
I figured it was an old english spelling. I'm just asking about the sudden change and why most books I run into spell it with the fae spelling. Is there a reason behind it?

~She-Wolf
I think it's actually gaelic-derived, as are many of the old stories of the fae.
Title: Re: Change in recent years
Post by: Richelle Mead on August 09, 2006, 08:40:07 PM: I think they're trying to be different, honestly. Just put a new twist and sound original.
Title: Re: Change in recent years
Post by: Mickey Finn on August 10, 2006, 05:25:51 PM: Original as in the original spelling. ;)

Honestly, I've always seen it spelled fae & Faerie (which is the land of Faerie) in older texts.
Title: Re: Change in recent years
Post by: novium on August 10, 2006, 10:41:10 PM: I thought it was to look cool and not have fairy-tale or disney associations. to be more 'serious'.
Title: Re: Change in recent years
Post by: BigMama on August 11, 2006, 10:11:19 PM: I've always thought that "fairy" was used to describe fictional characters like Tinkerbelle, and "Faerie" was used when refering to a world in which different forms of supernatural being resided.