Consignee

When I say the word "consignee" to myself, I think of cocktails. The way it rings in my head, the resounding tones resemble words like "concierge", "core competencies", "connoisseur" and other big shiny corporate terms. Or maybe it's just really hollow in there. Nonetheless, I was therefore pleased to find out that this word was created not by the french or the business class, but that the origin of the "ee" at the end of the word was conceived by the same group of simpletons who decided that putting "ee" at the end of any word was an easy way to get out of having to remember more words than necessary. Yes, that fancy word "consignee" comes from the same family as "abductee", "dedicatee", and, arguably, "pwnee". I've always found the concept of the "ee" rather sneaky. I feel as though I'm conning the English language whenever I employ it. Example: "It is now time to present your gifts to their... oh, shit, what's the word?... giftEE, my friends. Please locate your giftEE and gift them now." And then of course you always run the risk of misplacing the accentuation, so that it sound as though you are just fond of an object in a motherly way. One misconstrued emphasis and suddenly it is not the recipitents of the gifts that you are refferring to, but rather the giftys. "Please locate your gifty now." There are some words, I must point out, that it seems ridicullous to ever consider turning into an "ee" word. Such as "banishee". First of all, who the hell uses the word banish in the first place? The only place I can recall having heard it is in Romeo and Juliet, and I can't imagine Prince Esculas reffering to Romeo as his "young banishee". Also, "biographee"? Was anyone aware that was a word? It is the subject of a biography, which, in my opinion, should be a "biographyee". Luckily, no one was dumb enough to recommend the word "autobiographee". I suppose they decided "author" would suffice. Unfortunately, "friskee" is not a word, although I can see some comically awkward situations arising from miscomunications during a police frisk if it were. A consignee, should you like to know, is "the person to whom a shipment is being delivered in a contract of carriage whether by land, sea, or air". The method of transportation is apparently vital to the definition. Therefore if the shipment is delivered by some other route other than land, sea, or air, the recipiant cannot be referred to as a consignee. Like, for instance, teleportation.