Talk:Epaña

RFV discussion: May 2019–February 2022
Spanish, eye dialect spelling of España. Ehpaña is much more citeable. Ultimateria (talk) 18:32, 15 May 2019 (UTC)
 * @Ultimateria: There's a lot of hits on Google Groups; are these just typos? Julia ☺ ☆ 08:29, 25 May 2019 (UTC)
 * @Julia: It can be hard to tell which ones are typos, but it looks like the majority to me. One is "epaña eh diferente" which uses another eye dialect spelling ("eh" for "es"). That and "pero que eto eh epaña" make only two that are definitively intentional. Ultimateria (talk) 22:18, 27 May 2019 (UTC)


 * A query.
 * English spelling is extremely squishy. We've got oddball things like  and  both pronounced like .  Words like  could be realized as  or  or  etc.  An argument could be made that English spelling is approaching logographic in its divergence from strict phonetics.  Spelling  as  is clearly just a visual divergence: both are pronounced the same.
 * However, various other languages are less loosey-goosey with their orthography. Words are pronounced as they're spelled.  Thus,  and  are not just visual differences -- the different spellings represent different phonetic realizations.
 * At what point does this spelling-difference phenomenon shift from "eye dialect" to just "dialect"? ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │Tala við mig 16:50, 28 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Once again, Wiktionarians are misusing the term eye dialect, which refers to a nonstandard spelling reflecting a standard pronunciation (e.g. for, whose standard pronunciation is ). Unless  and  are standard pronunciations in Spanish, these aren't eye dialect. They're nonstandard spellings, i.e. spellings reflecting nonstandard pronunciations.

RFV-failed. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 16:14, 24 February 2022 (UTC)