Talk:paleass

RFV discussion: September–October 2022
Sense 2, an obsolete spelling of palace.

I rather suspect this is a deliberate misspelling used just once in a late-1700s novel to represent the writing of an uneducated person. Note that it appears within a quote, not within the running text of the novel (though that novel consists largely of letters and spoken words). A version of the book with a foreword by the publisher suggests that the misspellings are deliberate and also purposefully vulgar. I also think that paleass is not a likely spelling for the word palace in any stage of English, as it contains a silent e in the middle of the word, which is unusual at best, and Im not sure Ive ever seen it before.

The link to what I saw is this; hopefully it should work for everyone who wants to read it.

Thank you, — Soap — 14:13, 17 September 2022 (UTC)

RFV-failed, completely unfindable outside that work. On a tangent, this word turns up in a whole bunch of Latin texts in the GBooks search. "Coge mihi paleass Cererem iam delere"... not sure what Ceres did to deserve this moniker. This, that and the other (talk) 04:39, 27 October 2022 (UTC)