Talk:frontin'

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frontin'

Aren't we getting rid of entries with in' at the end? --Keene 06:26, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Ooh. That's a tough one. Inasmuch as I don't want to see our collection of words mirror UD's, I've only ever heard this word with silent g. It's tricky though, because certain dialects usually have silent g, but those are the only ones which are likely to use this word. At the same time, I don't want every infinitive to have a g-less alt spelling. Weak indecision -Atelaes λάλει ἐμοί 06:31, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

I think where there is indecision (weak or otherwise), we should go on the printed word only, rather than working off dialects. Personally I'd delete. We're a dictionary, we're supposed to spell right.--Dmol 12:13, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Well, it certainly appears in print, as of course do many many other words of this sort. And it seems rather odd to call it a misspelling, although I suppose it arguably is. -- Visviva 12:34, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Are we? When was this decided? -- Visviva 12:34, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Keep this and any other attested forms in (deprecated template usage) -in'; I don't see how we can bill ourselves as "all words in all languages" if we don't include these. However, the entry needs to be fixed; the infinitive-style definition is not correct. —Ruakh_TALK 13:19, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

AbstainKeep. Though this seems like a BP issue or even a vote. DCDuring TALK 13:45, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Keep. Mark as "nonstandard" or "eye-dialect" perhaps. --Connel MacKenzie 23:34, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Move sense to fronting, since this sense is actually better-attested in print in that form than this one. Only in really extraordinary cases would it make sense to have different senses in what is basically just an alternative-spelling entry. But keep entry as some sort of soft redirect, at least for now. -- Visviva 05:03, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

Keep! — if attested. Mark as {{eye dialect}}, I think, or perhaps with a new template per Ruakh's comments on bein', just below.—msh210℠ 16:58, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

'Keep per msh210 and Ruakh. Thryduulf 17:04, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

BP discussion: WT:BP#-in.27_forms DCDuring TALK 20:00, 25 April 2008 (UTC) (modified negligibly—msh210℠ 18:54, 23 June 2008 (UTC))

Kept. Votes in this section and discussion in the linked-to BP section widely favor keeping.—msh210℠ 18:54, 23 June 2008 (UTC)