Talk:skugry

The word is attested only once (see Citations), and as it does not meet the criteria for inclusion, should be deleted forthwith. Jiří Bezděka (talk) 09:34, 13 March 2018 (UTC)

RFV discussion: March–April 2018
Tagged (for RFD) but not listed. — Ungoliant (falai) 14:12, 13 March 2018 (UTC)


 * On the citations page, you can see the cite of a poem by (1568). That's right on the border between middle English and modern English. Would we consider this middle English? Kiwima (talk) 21:01, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
 * WT:AENM defines Middle English as ending in 1500, which would make 1568 Early Modern English. —Mahāgaja (formerly Angr) · talk 21:40, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Yes, and while some editors have pushed for a different cutoff, it's generally been an earlier one (1476). 1568 is definitely Early Modern English. I don't see anything in the Middle English Dictionary like this spelling, either, as far as attesting it as a Middle English term. It might, however, be attestable as Scots if we can't find two more English citations. - -sche (discuss) 21:49, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
 * I have searched in vain for any other citations than the one I have given. (Two dictionaries that I have no access to and that can possibly—though very unlikely—record the two or more required examples of real usage are The Third Edition of the OED and The Merriam-Webster's Unabridged.) As there is obviously no sense relation to either skuggery or scuggery (unlike what the entry suggests), the entry can be deleted. (For Scots, the same criteria, i.e. at least three quotations, apply as for English, in other words, it should be deleted anyway.) (Sorry for not having put the entry into the “Requests for deletion” list at first.) Jiří Bezděka (talk) 21:09, 14 March 2018 (UTC)

RFV-failed Kiwima (talk) 22:27, 14 April 2018 (UTC)