Talk:præmium

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præmium

An anon added the alt spelling præmium, and has been adding a number of similar alt spellings. Do we do this "æ" stuff? Couldn't this create a bottomless pit for alt spellings? -- WikiPedant 02:36, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

The pit may be deep, but it's not bottomless. It probably merits an obsoletearchaic tag. It does our users no harm. It is also useless normally to our standard-issue user who could not reproduce "æ" except by cut-and-paste. It seems to me that it has its greatest (albeit very modest) value as an alternative spelling/form on the entry for premium. DCDuring TALK 11:34, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

And was præmiums ever used as the plural? Which electronic sources reliably reproduce the ligature anyway for attestation purposes? DCDuring TALK 11:45, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

(deprecated template usage) prœmium is easy to cite using google books:"prœmium", but google books:intext:"præmium" pulls up no English hits. —Ruakh_TALK 13:27, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

At least some of the cites on the first page of google books:"prœmium" seem, on magnified inspection, to be of the "ae" ligature. This merely illustrates the difficulty in attesting such entries using our usual tools. My personal conclusion is that I will not expend another minute on an entry with a ligature again. We could use an entry for the more important spelling praemium#English DCDuring TALK 16:23, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

RFV failed, entry deleted (and removed from the alternative-spellings list at [[premium]]). —Ruakh_TALK 14:32, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

Heh, I should’ve got to this one earlier. I’ve recreated the entry with adequate attestation; can someone mark this RfV-passed and then restrike the header? † ﴾^(u):Raifʻhār ^(t):Doremítzwr﴿ 12:29, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

RFV passed - three extant quotations. The uſer hight Bogorm converſation 12:48, 18 May 2009 (UTC)