Talk:suthern

suthern
Pretty sure it's just a misspelling/typo. PalkiaX50 suggested that it was eye dialect, but AnWulf (this entry's creator) reverted him. AnWulf claims that it is a "simplified spelling" even though there is not much to suggest that. If it really is a misspelling/typo, it's certainly not common enough to merit a entry. --Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 04:55, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete In every example given (except for Man in India, for which I can't find either word), the book contains hits for both "suthern" and "southern". Clearly a typo. (At any rate, it seems like a poor simplified spelling, since it obscures the connection between south and southern) Smurrayinchester (talk) 07:37, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
 * There are different ways to "simplify" a spelling system, but the idea is usually to make sound-spelling correspondences more consistent. Given that "south" and "southern" are pronounced completely differently, it's reasonable that their simplified spellings would be different. But that's neither here nor there; it's not our job to promote simpler spellings, and when they're rare and currently nonstandard, it's not our job to include them at all. —Ruakh TALK 20:09, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete. —Ruakh TALK 20:09, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Sounds like a protologism, especially the edit summary 'simplified spelling' which makes it sound like it's invented by the user. Delete. Mglovesfun (talk) 17:21, 27 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Deleted (last August, by Mglovesfun). —Ruakh TALK 00:22, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
 * It's a shame I didn't see this before. Is it possible that this was in use in early modern English as a spelling variant? 00:35, 27 January 2013 (UTC)