Talk:ふらんすご

RFD discussion: May 2016–February 2021


This was marked for speedy deletion by User:Fumiko Take on the grounds that "Furansu is not normally written in hiragana". Given that the entry has been there for 8 years, and that there are hits in Google Books, I didn't think this merited speedying. Of course, hits aren't necessarily actual usage, especially since Google has problems with non-Latin scripts and with languages without clearly-visible word boundaries.

Note: if this passes, there's the possibility it could be challenged in rfd as a rare misspelling. Chuck Entz (talk) 03:42, 1 May 2016 (UTC)


 * All the previewable Google Books results are of children's textbooks (except for this one bizarre "Glossika" result), and all of the same sentence. Katakana is one of the basic Japanese scripts alongside Hiragana, and I'm guessing the textbooks are for children who haven't learned it yet. It is as legitimate a spelling as English FRENCH or french. —suzukaze (t・c) 03:49, 1 May 2016 (UTC)


 * Meh. Attestable, albeit not very common.  It's valid, and there's no harm in us retaining this.  Keep. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │Tala við mig 17:32, 2 May 2016 (UTC)


 * I said "not normally" which means some authors do use the hiragana form for ruby in certain ways in their writings. It's not a "normal" (=commonplace) practice though. ばかFumiko￥talk 03:52, 18 June 2016 (UTC)


 * I concur with Eirikr: it's not at all common, but it is legitimate (especially, as suzukaze-c notes, in children's books). I don't see any harm in keeping it more or less as is, perhaps noting that it is uncommon. Cnilep (talk) 02:39, 9 November 2017 (UTC)


 * I'm going to move this to RFD because it seems attestable, and users above seem to agree it's attested, the argument is that the books it's attested in are rare or oriented to children. - -sche (discuss) 23:19, 5 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Moved from RFV. Discuss: is an uncommon spelling which is mostly attested in children's book and language-learner books includable? - -sche (discuss) 23:22, 5 May 2018 (UTC)

よーろっぱ, ゆーらしあ, おーすとらりあ
—suzukaze (t・c) 02:43, 22 January 2017 (UTC)


 * I had literally never seen in hiragana – I don't suppose  is common with the primary-school set – but I did find a couple of uses in magazine headings.,  I guess it's eye-catching? Both  and  are a bit more common (e.g. , , ; , ). Cnilep (talk) 09:13, 9 November 2017 (UTC)


 * I'm going to move this to RFD, as above. - -sche (discuss) 23:19, 5 May 2018 (UTC)
 * No consensus to delete. &mdash; surjection &lang;??&rang; 10:15, 8 February 2021 (UTC)