Talk:gale

RFV discussion: November–December 2021
Rfv-sense: A song or story. - appears in a bunch of glossaries. Meh, probably is ok MooreDoor (talk) 21:57, 4 November 2021 (UTC)


 * OED only has Middle English for this sense, if it makes anyone more comfortable to fail this... This, that and the other (talk) 13:57, 3 December 2021 (UTC)

RFV-failed Kiwima (talk) 19:48, 4 December 2021 (UTC)

RFV discussion: November–December 2023
Rfv-sense: To sing; charm; enchant. P. Sovjunk (talk) 23:36, 2 November 2023 (UTC)
 * For the "sing" sense, OED has no post-1500 quotations. There are two other senses; "to make an outcry" also does not appear to have survived out of Middle English, while "Of a dog: to bark, yelp[;] Of a bird, esp. the cuckoo: To utter its peculiar note" just scrapes by with two 16th-century quotations. They appear to be in Scottish English; for example, one dated 1559 states: "Gaill lyke ane goik, and greit quhen scho wes wa" (??). — Sgconlaw (talk) 19:28, 9 November 2023 (UTC)
 * That's Middle Scots - see "quhen" for "when". This, that and the other (talk) 23:32, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

RFV-failed This, that and the other (talk) 23:32, 3 December 2023 (UTC)