Talk:impossible

RFV discussion: February–April 2022

 * an impossibility
 * Quotation changed by Astova:
 * Quotation changed by Astova:

Tagged by Astova, not listed (“This was sourced with Chaucer (see below), but that's Middle English (enm) and was misquoted”). J3133 (talk) 21:06, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
 * If the ME is doubted, apparently Chaucer also used this in Troilus and Cressida (spelt ). Anyway, as for Modern English, OED suggests this is in fact not obsolete and should be citeable with some creative searching (I obviously don't want to copy the cites out of OED). However, it seems to me that a lot of adjectives can be used in this way. We could likely cite as a noun meaning "an inconceivability", for instance; and  is a case in point from modern times. So it may not be entry-worthy on those grounds. This, that and the other (talk) 09:12, 20 February 2022 (UTC)

cited Kiwima (talk) 02:38, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

RFV-passed Kiwima (talk) 05:19, 20 April 2022 (UTC)