Talk:feamyng
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A group of ferrets. From business by a series of misprints and copying errors; hence, a ghost word. An interesting etymology if ever there was one! Pious Eterino (talk) 11:24, 9 November 2023 (UTC)
- Was in use as early as 1967 according to w:Beyond Language, and 1963 in this book. The copying errors were on a circulating list of collective terms for animals, sometimes also including non-animal terms (e.g. a draught of butlers on the book I linked). I couldn't find any citations in running text ... Google Books returns a few books about ferrets that may contain the term, but none of them offer previews of the full page contents. The somewhat less interesting spelling fesnyng is well-cited, and if we can't hang on to this I would suggest redirecting it to fesnyng so people who search for it will get easy access to the etymology. —Soap— 07:09, 10 November 2023 (UTC)
- RFV failed Denazz (talk) 12:21, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
- Again, since this got deleted, can i make a redirect? it'd be more helpful than having someone need to come here and search for feamyng and then click fesnyng on the search result list .... which isnt actually such an obvious target, and might not always be the first result on the list. thanks, —Soap— 06:46, 29 July 2024 (UTC)
- @Soap I don't think a hard redirect is appropriate here, but we could do a soft redirect using
{{no entry|en|fesnyng}}. This, that and the other (talk) 09:07, 29 July 2024 (UTC)
- @Soap I don't think a hard redirect is appropriate here, but we could do a soft redirect using
- Again, since this got deleted, can i make a redirect? it'd be more helpful than having someone need to come here and search for feamyng and then click fesnyng on the search result list .... which isnt actually such an obvious target, and might not always be the first result on the list. thanks, —Soap— 06:46, 29 July 2024 (UTC)