re: Georgia fan shares racist comments made by UGA baseball player toward Justin Fields

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Are the -a and -er separate entries in the dictionary? I truly don't know. I do know that the differing pronunciations tend to carry dichotomous connotations, of course. Never tried to look up one independent of the other, though.

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good question....

upon further investigation, the dictionary just says that one is a respelling of the other. wikipedia says that there is not a consensus either way. i don't think it could be more obvious that they are, personally.