In addition to studying another language, I often have to return to my own so I can stay on top of and use cool words like lugubrious and verklempt. In my literary research today, I looked up the difference between flyer and flier. Don't worry; I was neither lugubrious nor verklempt.
Here is what I learned:
Flyer refers to advertising, promotional materials, like a square dance flyer.
Flier refers to something that involves aviation, like frequent-flier miles.
But what if you fold a flyer into a paper airplane? Does it then transform into a flier?
This is one of those weird language evolutions in progress where we haven't yet deemed one spelling "archaic" and accept different meanings for the same word like we have for crier/cryer (arch).
As in Dixie Crier, full of flyers.
Sometimes it be both, you know.
A guitar that insists it is a lute may be a lyre,
TWS
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