Talk:Ænglish

RFV discussion: July–August 2019
"Archaic form of English." Had a quote to a Wikipedia article clearly meant as a joke. &mdash; surjection &lang;?&rang; 12:53, 16 July 2019 (UTC)


 * FWIW, I added a quote to the citations page. Frustratingly, Google reports "English" (in italics) as "Ænglish", so there are MANY false positives to check. Kiwima (talk) 22:07, 16 July 2019 (UTC)


 * hi, i added an additional quote. also presumably this guy's books use the word but i can't find the text online: --Habst (talk) 02:20, 17 July 2019 (UTC)
 * How could, especially in the modern English period, "Ænglish" be an archaic spelling of English? I mean, the letter ash isn't even used in usual/standard Modern English spelling.Tharthan (talk) 07:56, 17 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Tharthan exaggerates. Spellings like cæcum linger on, though the encoding of the vowel seems debatable.  (For plain text, I'd prefer the spelling with ZWJ.)   -- RichardW57m (talk) 12:40, 18 July 2019 (UTC)
 * If this exists as a Modern English word, it seems far more likely to me that it would be an alteration of "English" based off of Old English Ænglisċ.Tharthan (talk) 07:56, 17 July 2019 (UTC)
 * yes, my interpretation was that it is an alternative form of Ænglisc used in modern times. --Habst (talk) 14:04, 17 July 2019 (UTC)

RFV-failed -- converted to Old English Kiwima (talk) 21:44, 24 August 2019 (UTC)

RFV discussion: December 2019
This failed RFV as an English word, and User:Kiwima then for some reason converted it to Old English, but it's clearly not an Old English word (sh was not used to mean /ʃ/ in Old English). Given the previous failed RFV, I think this should just be deleted. Benwing2 (talk) 20:04, 15 December 2019 (UTC)
 * It failed RFV because the citations that were found predated modern English, not because there were no citations. (And I did not convert it to Old English, that was Kiwima (talk) 20:26, 15 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Hmm, I'm pretty sure I just cleaned up the entry and gave it a (Modern) English L2, in this diff which is my only edit to that entry. &mdash; surjection &lang;?&rang; 20:34, 15 December 2019 (UTC)


 * The L2 was changed by Soumya-8974 while the RfV was in progress. --Lambiam 23:16, 15 December 2019 (UTC)


 * Speedied. Obviously not Old English and already failed RFV as English (and not for the reason that Kiwima stated, judging by that discussion and the citations page). —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 23:27, 15 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Apologies, your RFV-close message said "converted to Old English" so I assumed you converted it. Benwing2 (talk) 02:03, 16 December 2019 (UTC)
 * I can understand how that could be confusing. I just wanted to ping Surjection so he could weigh in if he wanted. Kiwima (talk) 02:13, 16 December 2019 (UTC)