Talk:zanzy

RFV discussion
The etymology is incredibly suspect. Does anyone know this word? Equinox ◑ 02:31, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
 * The etymology is what other dictionaries have. I'm unfamiliar with the word, but it appears at and .  &#x200b;—  msh210  ℠  16:01, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
 * In the first of your links, it's just a typo for . The second may be valid, though. —Ruakh TALK 01:28, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Update: see below. The second link probably isn't valid, either, given that the word (if real) is supposed to be 1960's AAVE slang, not the sort of term you'd expect to find in a 2006 Usenet posting by an Indian (South Asian) with a limited grasp of English. —Ruakh TALK 01:46, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

RFV failed, entry deleted. It's too bad; I found several mentions, including some that seem rather reliable, indicating that it's old AAVE slang (from the 1960s or so), which suggests that our failure to cite it has more to do with what sorts of sources we can cite from than with whether the word really existed. —Ruakh TALK 01:46, 29 August 2010 (UTC)


 * When the last volume of DARE is published, will its authority be good enough for such an entry? The new BYU Corpus of Historical American English didn't have it, but I don't think they have sources that would cover this. It is a convenient source because its search capability and convenient presentation. DCDuring TALK 02:14, 29 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Currently we don't accept any authorities as justifying inclusion. Editors occasionally leave comments that seem to think we accept the OED for this purpose, but that's not enshrined in policy, and I've deleted plenty of RFV-failed words that have OED entries. That said, DARE and the OED both include quotations in their entries, and those quotations can count toward CFI. —Ruakh TALK 12:50, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm surprised that "zanzy" can't even be found in a scholarly journal. DCDuring TALK 13:27, 29 August 2010 (UTC)