Talk:harbus

RFV discussion: January–March 2024
Weird Fond of sanddunes (talk) 22:57, 17 January 2024 (UTC)


 * This word surely holds some kind of record for the most attested forms. OED has four separate lemmas - arquebus (63 alt forms), hackbut (35 alt forms), hackbush (17 alt forms) and harquebut (6 alt forms). Despite the proliferation of forms, every single form in OED includes the velar under some guise or another. Needless to say, this form is not in there. This, that and the other (talk) 02:34, 18 January 2024 (UTC)


 * A candidate for WT:HOF if those spellings are attested to our own standards! :o
 * I could believe this as some kind of focsle-style abbreviation, either in speech or writing, but I can't find evidence of it in English. The only thing I've found so far is a letter in French from Puitesson to Du Plessis Bellay, quoted in the Revue d'études historiques et archéologiques (1857), page 247:
 * [...] de chaser ne tirer de l'arquebus dedans laditte forest; m'enjoignans d'informer contre seuls qui y chaseront, tireront, et mesme qui feront veue aveques harbus dedands ladite forest.
 * - -sche (discuss) 19:47, 18 January 2024 (UTC)


 * Failed, and I've RFVed harbush. - -sche (discuss) 04:14, 9 March 2024 (UTC)