TIL that "vender" is an acceptable spelling for the far more commonly used "vendor".
Someone on substack put it this way: "The spelling vendor is the standard spelling. The New Yorker, as part of its bizarre house style, uses the spelling vender. No one else does, besides those trying to emulate The New Yorker’s style."
Indeed, the Corpus of Contemporary American English (https://www.english-corpora.org/coca/) has "vendor" appearing 72 times more frequently than "vender" (5,040 times vs. 72 times).
Google ngram viewer echoes this trend: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=vender%2C+vendor&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=3&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cvender%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cvendor%3B%2Cc0
Which is all to say, thanks for VF, it amuses and sparks curiosity, even if it is written in the bizarre house style of the New Yorker.
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TIL that "vender" is an acceptable spelling for the far more commonly used "vendor".
Someone on substack put it this way: "The spelling vendor is the standard spelling. The New Yorker, as part of its bizarre house style, uses the spelling vender. No one else does, besides those trying to emulate The New Yorker’s style."
Indeed, the Corpus of Contemporary American English (https://www.english-corpora.org/coca/) has "vendor" appearing 72 times more frequently than "vender" (5,040 times vs. 72 times).
Google ngram viewer echoes this trend: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=vender%2C+vendor&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=3&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cvender%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cvendor%3B%2Cc0
Which is all to say, thanks for VF, it amuses and sparks curiosity, even if it is written in the bizarre house style of the New Yorker.
Is it Venndor or Vennder for those who like to make Venn diagrams?
Hey, if Waring can sell Blendors, I can use Vendors. https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_324295
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