Talk:confuscate

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"Alternative spelling of (deprecated template usage) confusticate." However, everything I can see in Google Books is an error for (deprecated template usage) confiscate. Equinox ◑ 09:47, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

What about

• to further confuscate matters, Williams' accession to this "post-Modern" title is neutralized in abstruse modifications (William Carlos Williams Newsletter, Volumes 1-4)
• For practical purposes, the distinction between the constitutive and declaratory theories of recognition is often of only marginal importance and frequently serves to confuscate rather than elucidate (International Law: Cases and Materials with Australian Perspectives - Page 248)
• 'Cause Mr. Theophilus Woolson kin confuscate you with his big words (Ballou's monthly magazine: Volume 56)

Fugyoo 08:12, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

If you want input on a given quotation, please provide a link to the context. (Better yet, format it per Wiktionary:Quotations, with a linkified page-number.) —Ruakh_TALK 17:36, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

Fugyoo's first two citations (which I've formatted and put here) look good to me; the last might be eye dialect, so I found other standard English citations. Note that one of the quotations is from an Australian law expert, so I'm not sure the {{US}} tag on confusticate is accurate for confuscate. - -sche (discuss) 19:32, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

Given the Tolkien quotation, I've changed the tag on confusticate from {{US}} to {{chiefly|US}}. - -sche (discuss) 19:37, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

Striking as passed (has been cited). - -sche (discuss) 18:13, 25 August 2011 (UTC)