Talk:fourty

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fourty

This is actually a request for undeletion. I added this as a misspelling of forty and someone deleted it. It should be undeleted as it is quite an common misspelling of "forty", consider that it is kind of odd that "four" has a "u" and "forty" doesn't. Shoof 13:26, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Hello Shoof, in the future put requests for undeletion in the tea room. Normally wiktionary is strict on not allowing too many "common misspellings" to be added as entries and your entry was probably deleted accordingly: not a common misspelling, just an error. You can, however, argue your case, personally, I can see where your coming from, you may wish to add "fourty" as an alternative spelling on forty's entry before attempting to recreate the article. I normally wouldn't be thrilled about a common misspelling but in this case I would probably side with you, wait for consensus to reach, however. Randy6767 15:51, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

More than a thousand Google Book hits, many probably not legit as citations (misspellings by Google of the titles) but undoubtedly some are, which would make this misspelling citable in print possibly even as an alternative spelling. Restored. DAVilla 16:57, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

I put a citation in the entry. -- Beobach972 15:37, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

What was so wrong with the I in "It" that you had to paraphrase it? DAVilla 22:08, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Generally, whenever one alters a quotation, it is appropriate to indicate the alteration, particularly when changing a sentence-initial majuscule letter to minuscule, or vice versa. I didn't want to begin the sentence with a minuscule letter, as it was in the text, and thus... -- Beobach972 22:44, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

• Not sure if it should be ==Middle English== or ==Old English==, but certainly not ==English==! --Connel MacKenzie 03:49, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

  In the eighteenth century!? Anything that late is de facto "Modern English". The w:Middle English period is considered to end in the latter half of the 15th century. --EncycloPetey 04:05, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Middle English spelling of Forty

It should be noted that Fourty was the correct spelling of Forty in Middle English, as shown in the Introduction to the Man of Law's Tale in the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer: "That Phebus which that shoon so clere and brighte / Degrees was fyve and fourty clombe on highte" (Introduction to the Man of Law's Tale, lines 11-12).