Terminology??

[Randy]

I wonder if a scroll sawer should more properly be referred to as a scroll sawyer??

[workin for wood]

Don't think so...sawyer is an occupational term meaning one who cuts logs into boards. Similar, but not quite the same thing.

[CanadianScroller]

Well I have to go with Randy on this one.

I knew a shingle sawyer who sawed shingles.
Sawyer by definition is one who saws and dates back to the 13 century,
There are other definitions which agree with Jeff. but they were more common in the logging industry.

When I looked for the definition of sawer, the PC said do you mean sawyer.
Maybe the whole world is wrong and we just don't know it.

We have used both for so long I don't think anyone is going to have a coniption.

I am sure in 50 years time there will be another name or pronunciation, there is nothing permanent in the English language.

It is cool to run a spell checker though

PS to Rob I don't have access privileges to the online one anymore.

[GrayBeard Phil]

I disagree:

Word is similar to law and lawyer.

Saw can be a noun or a verb. But when referred to a person who does sawing, I think the spelling rules require the use of -yer suffix when the word ends in "aw".

I am looking up the reference, but Google is not being kind to me today.


Phil

[workin for wood]

you disagree with who? or you agree to disagree? I wouldn't know, it all sounds plausible to me. Perhaps we got lazy again and tossed the y.

[Greenfield_Bob]

My Websters' Dictionary says. Sawyer is one whose work is sawing wood.
It doesn't have the word Sawer in it.

Bob

[lucky788scroller]

then... Sawyer it is!!! LOl, dale

[Gill]

What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other word would smell as sweet.

--From Romeo and Juliet (II, ii, 1-2)

[GrayBeard Phil]

The best I can come up with doing several Google searchs on Rules of Spelling, and then working ASK.com for a while:

When adding the suffix -er to to a noun to change the meaning of the noun to "one who..."

And if the word ends in a consonant preceded by a vowel, change suffix to -ier

however, if the consonant is the letter W change the suffix letter I to Y as in -yer.

There are only three common words (nouns) that end in -wyer to denote "one who...":
Law - Lawyer
Saw - Sawyer
bow - Bowyer (one who makes and sells bows for archery.)

(but Gill is correct, again.)

Phil

[kyscroller]

sawer , sawyer, my tomato, your tomatoe why dont we just say wood scrollers

[Trout]

sawer or sawyer....

my spell checker doesn't work for me eather...
it said my privilage has been taken away what did I do??

Trout

[CanadianScroller]

I saw all of this coming when I first commented

I must be a seer...or would that be...nevermind!

[kyscroller]

Webster online said this when you pull up a definition for sawer

SAWER
Noun
1. One who saws; a sawyer.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)



"SAWER" is a common misspelling or typo for: saber, saver, sawed, sawyer, sewer, swear.

[PuzzledMoose]

I don't trust the spellcheck on here - it says i spell colour incorrectly

[kyscroller]

ya ought to see that thar spell checker here in Kentucky IAN

It jest aint got that thar proper terminology