Talk:abatage

RFV discussion: April 2011–January 2012
This word (not the French abattage) doesn't appear in dictionaries I have referred to (Collins, SOE, online-OED) - does it exist? —Saltmarshtalk-συζήτηση 06:17, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
 * One OneLook dictionary (besides us) has it as an alternative form of abattage:, but only in the "slaughter of animals" sense. This seems like another instance of the all-too-frequent assumption by a contributor, usually completely unsupported by evidence or authority, that an English loan-word (usually a rare one) has all the meanings that it did in the source language. I have added abattage in one sense, added an alternative spelling sense at abatage and converted the RfV to 3 RfV-senses. DCDuring TALK 15:09, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Not strictly relevant, but abatage looks etymologically correct to me. Abattage ought to have been spelled in Old French, as Old French drops a lot of double consonants, many of which were later added back to reflect the original Latin spellings. Mglovesfun (talk) 18:41, 4 April 2011 (UTC)


 * All senses except "alternative form of abattage" removed. - -sche (discuss) 04:03, 31 January 2012 (UTC)