Talk:Yankee spelling

RFD discussion: August–September 2016
I presume this is as unidiomatic as American spelling was judged to be. - -sche (discuss) 21:44, 18 August 2016 (UTC)
 * There's something about that makes me think it is less so, but not enough to object to deletion. bd2412 T 15:59, 19 August 2016 (UTC)


 * But then why is no sense of Yankee glossed as derogatory? Equinox ◑ 17:18, 19 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Perhaps some sense should be labelled pejorative; at a minimum, the entry should note that Yankee is more informal than American. Does a word have to be pejorative on its own in order for some constructions using it to be pejorative, though? No sense of "transgender" or "agenda" is labelled as derogatory, but "transgender agenda" has been meant and received as derogatory in every instance I've seen, and the sense of "gay" used in "gay agenda" is also not inherently derogatory, but the full phrase is derogatory (and both are SOP, IMO). For another example, "foreign" and "worker" are not labelled as derogatory, but referring to "foreign workers" rather than another synonym is controversial / pejorative in Germany (including in English-language media). Also, I suspect "Yankee spelling" is not always pejorative, but is only sometimes pejorative in the same way that "Yankee" is only sometimes pejorative. - -sche (discuss) 18:50, 19 August 2016 (UTC)


 * To accuse someone of an "agenda" (when it's really probably just a set of opinions) is more semantically than lexically derogatory. People don't get accused of making rulings. Equinox ◑ 21:41, 19 August 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 19:45, 26 August 2016 (UTC)


 * I think it can be derogatory from a British point of view: e.g. "Why is it spelt "color"?" "Oh, that's the Yankee spelling". Just an idea. DonnanZ (talk) 15:48, 31 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete, yes, Yankee is as far as I understand it generally derogatory but not always. And not derogatory when referring to the New York Yankees which is frankly what it's most used for nowadays. Renard Migrant (talk) 16:01, 31 August 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete. --WikiTiki89 15:08, 22 September 2016 (UTC)

Deleted bd2412 T 19:16, 26 September 2016 (UTC)