# Three men freeze to death in a friend's backyard and aren't found for three days

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This says “party hearty” was the original:

> **[Do You 'Party Hearty' or 'Party Hardy' (or Both)?](https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/party-hearty-vs-party-hardy-usage-difference)**
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> The key to partying is being kind and resilient.

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> It was likely formed from the process of [reduplication](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reduplication)—that is, people began rhyming _party_ with _hearty_ , and it caught on. In short time, _hardy_ was misheard for _hearty_ (just to be clear: _hearty_ and _hardy_ are not [homophones](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/homophone)), which created the [eggcorn](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eggcorn) “party hardy” and which, itself, led to the common variant “party hard.”

In my Great Lakes dialect, so far as I can tell, I pronounce “hearty” and “hardy” the same.

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