Talk:harang

RFV discussion: April–July 2014
All senses. The citations make a good case for "haranging" as an alternative form or misspelling of "haranguing", but a cursory Google books search doesn't find anything useful for harang itself, either as a verb or a noun. Smurrayinchester (talk) 15:45, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Google Books searches for "haranged" and "his harangs" give numerous valid results for the verb and noun senses respectively. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 19:39, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I'd still question whether "haranged" proves the existance of "harang" - dropping the -ue from "harangue" when conjugating it seems like a more plausible explanation. Still, searching "would harang" has found a very small number of results. Do we mark this as an alternative form, or a misspelling? Smurrayinchester (talk) 20:17, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
 * We don't record all attestable misspellings, only "common" ones, but without any specification of "common". I would think a frequency of at least one percent of the correct spelling AND some reasonably large absolute number would be required for something to be considered a common misspelling. The ing- and ed-forms may be common even if the bare form is not. DCDuring TALK 20:48, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Cited. Seems to be an obsolete spelling rather than a misspelling. — Ungoliant (falai) 14:55, 16 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Passed. — Ungoliant (falai) 01:29, 7 July 2014 (UTC)