Talk:plenicorn

RFV discussion: June 2020–January 2021
DTLHS (talk) 17:58, 7 June 2020 (UTC)


 * Interesting. It's a meaningful word with sound etymology and appearing in dictionaries back at least to the 19th Century, but nobody has ever used it.   The antonym cavicorn has a few uses. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 18:40, 7 June 2020 (UTC)


 * The 1905 NED has an entry for it as both a noun ("A quadruped having solid horns; formerly, (in pl.) name of a division of ruminants.") and an adjective ("Having solid horns."), with one citation:


 * 1840 Brande, Dict. Sci. etc.:
 * Plenicorns, the name of a tribe of Ruminants, including those which have horns composed of an uniform solid osseous substance as the antlers of deer.
 * ...which is mentiony. Frank H. Vizetelly's 1919 A Desk-book of Twenty-five Thousand Words Frequently Mispronounced, page 679, has it as an adjective "said of deer", with three pronunciations, one marked as "the pronunciation current in Great Britain" as if to imply people used the word. The fact that I can't find Brande's work digitized anywhere, only the NED quote of it, as well as the fact that Vizetelly asserts that a particular pronunciation was current, leads me to suspect that this word might have in fact been in use in works which have simply not survived or not been digitized. As far as I can tell, it should fail RFV and be moved to the "dictionary-only words" appendix for now. - -sche (discuss) 00:57, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

RFV-failed Kiwima (talk) 04:26, 25 January 2021 (UTC)