Talk:galericulate

RFV discussion: September 2011–March 2012
Wearing a hat... or something... It does seem to be in Johnson's dictionary, but has anyone used it elsewhere? Equinox ◑ 20:09, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
 * I do hope our dear Mr. Johnson would find himself anispeptic, frasmotic, and even compunctuous to have caused such pericombobulation. Now where did I put that plate of sausages...  ;)  -- Eiríkr Útlendi | Tala við mig 07:20, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
 * After relinquishing to fatigate our collective intelligence, I did some more serious poking about and found that this is apparently a typo -- the proper spelling should be, deriving from Latin , diminutive of . C.f. "garlericulate"+-wiki vs. "galericulate"+-wiki.  Assuming the common pattern of English "-ate" words deriving from Latin past participles, the closest gloss would probably be "capped" rather than the rather odder phrase, "Covered, as with a hat."  -- HTH, Eiríkr Útlendi | Tala við mig 18:21, 19 September 2011 (UTC)


 * The IP user that added the term did not apparently actually track down Johnson's spelling. The reference to Johnson on the page just links through to the EN WP article about Johnson's dictionary.  This link is to a scan of the page showing that the entry in Johnson was indeed spelled galericulate, without that first "r".  I'm moving the page shortly to fix this.  -- Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 06:26, 6 November 2011 (UTC)
 * All Google Books hits seem to be of dictionaries. But there are so many of them that I think this should be kept as a "dictionary only" -term. --Hekaheka 22:08, 21 November 2011 (UTC)


 * Deleted. Make it an if you like. - -sche (discuss) 22:22, 3 March 2012 (UTC)