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From: Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage
Date: 20040101
Author:ROBERT ALLEN

fogey, fogy . This occurs mainly in the expressions old (and now also young ) fogey . Fogy was formerly the dominant spelling; Thackeray and Charles Kingsley, for example, wrote about old fogies , implying a singular form fogy . But with the more recent arrival of the young fogey (‘a young person with conservative tastes and attitudes’), the spelling with -ey (plural -eys ) is now more common.

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