Talk:gain-buy

I still believe that there is no need for the dash.


 * Google hits - "gainbuy" 3,570, "gain-buy" 95,500 SemperBlotto 07:15, 31 August 2009 (UTC)


 * See WT:RFV and gainbuy. We need citations for both. DCDuring TALK 23:59, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

RFV discussion
NB the citation at Citations:gainbuy. — Beobach 20:50, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

gain-buy
Meaning "redeem". See gainbuy which has one citation (only one visible on b.g.c.). No cites for either term in OED. Many spurious hits like "...to gain, buy ...". I could not find one valid one for "gain buy" or "gain-buy" in the first hundred of ~400 at b.g.c. A Partridge dictionary had it as one of a small number of words derived from the Old English "gean". It may be that it was spelled differently in Middle English and Early Modern English. More citations for gainbuy would be welcome, too. DCDuring TALK 21:45, 16 September 2009 (UTC)


 * I thought I had found a nice batch of inflected forms (gainbuying, gainbought, etc.), but all proved to be from the same modernization of Misyn's translation of two works by Richard Rolle, the "Hermit of Hampole". The OED3 does have some citations, but none with this spelling (mostly something like "gainby") -- and in fact, all but one is from Misyn.  All of their citations for both this and Wyclif's preferred "againbuy" are solidly ENM, IMO.  What are we to do with words that are used only in modernizations of a single Middle English work?  They would seem barred from inclusion under the independence criterion, unless we make like the OED and file all of the Middle English spellings under the modernized spelling.  Even then it's touch and go for this one. -- Visviva 10:13, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

I don't know, probably the usual form is againbuy Rosswood40 08:30, 22 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Gain-buy and gainbuy would both seem to fail and can be deleted. — Beobach 03:07, 20 November 2010 (UTC) — Beobach 20:02, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Deleted, with the citations kept at Citations:gainbuy. — Beobach 00:15, 2 December 2010 (UTC)