Do we say commentator or commenter

commentator 188 occurrences

Dr. Johnson on his imagination,) must be apparent to every one,and also that his genius and its manifestations are so various, that there is no commentator but has been able to illustrate him from his own peculiar point of view or from the results of his own favorite studies.

" That Johnson was eminently qualified for the office of a commentator on Shakespeare, no man can doubt; but it was an office which he never cordially embraced.

The public expected more than he had diligence to perform; and yet his edition has been the ground, on which every subsequent commentator has chosen to build.

Hamlet, he says, breaks off in the middle of the sentence; but the learned commentator knows what he was going to say, and, being unwilling to keep the secret, he goes on in a train of philosophical reasoning, that leaves the reader in astonishment.

What Horace means scarcely requires explanation, but no commentator has successfully explained it.

As a servant, exclaims our commentator.

(In Commentator, July 1937)

(In Fantasy commentator, winter, 1945-46) © 7Mar46; B10853.

(In Fantasy commentator, spring, 1946) © 22May46; B23358.

(In Fantasy commentator, summer, 1946) © 10Jul46; B28996.

(In Fantasy commentator, fall, 1946)

By Prosper Merimee, compiler: Jerome I. Rodale, commentator: Edward James Fluck, <pb id='011.png' /> illustrator: Arthur Zaidenberg.

(In Fantasy commentator, spring 1948)

(In Fantasy commentator, spring 1948) © 5Apr48; B131592.

(In Fantasy commentator, fall 1948)

(In Fantasy commentator, spring 1948) © 5Apr48; B131592.

(In Commentator, Oct. 1939) © 8Sep39; B427533.

Otfrid VonWeissenburg: narrator or commentator?

By Prosper Merimee, compiler: Jerome I. Rodale, commentator: Edward James Fluck, <pb id='011.png' /> illustrator: Arthur Zaidenberg.

(In Fantasy commentator, spring 1948)

(In Fantasy commentator, spring 1948) © 5Apr48; B131592.

(In Fantasy commentator, fall 1948)

Among these must clearly be reckoned the commentator E. K., who may be identified with one Edward Kirke with all but absolute certainty.

Yet just such, another; only a commentator on Aristotle.

After sixteen years of existence, this establishment was unfavorably reported upon by Governor Sanz, who wished to suppress it on account of the liberal ideas and autonomist tendencies of its two principal professors, José Julian Acosta (Abbad's commentator) and Ramon B. Castro.

commenter 1 occurrences

The text here cited is not necessarily bad English as it stands; but, if the commenter has not mistaken its meaning, as well as its construction, it ought certainly to be, "Though everso justly deserving of it.""So

Do we say   commentator   or  commenter