Talk:ميز

Gulf Arabic
I'm the one who edited away the "obsolete" in the Gulf Arabic entry a while ago. Since then, a native speaker added that it's definitely obsolete in Kuwait. Now I know I heard this word from a Kuwaiti in his late thirties. However, he spent some time in Iraq. So I don't know. At least in Iraq it's definitely still a current word. Here's a video by a young successful make-up youtuber without doubt unlikely to use obsolete words: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMDsSXzmMPQonce (ca. 3:33). It's in a restaurant. It's seems to be the counter, but it's not entirely clear. Could also be a table. So the point is: Perhaps it's actually obsolete in Gulf Arabic. I'm not sure anymore. But it's definitely still current in Iraq. (Perhaps I should've been a bit more cautious with my editing, but since I'd heard it several times from Iraqis and at least once from a Kuwaiti I thought that the "obsolete" must've been mistaken.) 2.202.159.91 00:55, 29 August 2019 (UTC)
 * I was born and raised in Kuwait yet the first time I heard the word was from a TV series from the 70s, used by an old person (which might suggest it had been dated or old-fashioned but not obsolete by then, or maybe not, I don't know). However, that is about the only time. How about adding a 'may be dated or obsolete in some dialects' label before the definitions? --Emascandam (talk) 19:19, 29 August 2019 (UTC)
 * According to this site, the word is used in Iraq and used to be heard in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Bahrain, which fits well with what was said. --Emascandam (talk) 19:26, 29 August 2019 (UTC)