Talk:re-explain

Deletion discussion

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re-explain

The hyphen eliminates any possible ambiguity. --Romanophile (talk) 06:22, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

• Then why put this entry up for deletion? This is standard practice in British English. Keep without question. There are numerous re-e words like this, too numerous to list here, but re-enter is one of them. I think the hyphen is included because each "e" has a different vowel sound. Donnanz (talk) 09:22, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

  I think Romanophile is suggesting that this is SoP for the reason stated. As it is the preferred spelling (over both reenter and reënter) we should keep it. I think WT:COALMINE provides another rationale for keeping it. DCDuring TALK 12:01, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

  We never consider single words SOP on the basis of their morphemes, even if they're always spelled with a hyphen. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 12:48, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

I’ll just close this request then (unless Equinox chimes in). --Romanophile (talk) 15:28, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

It's a single word and de facto we don't ask that single words be idiomatic, though WT:CFI makes no exemption for single words! Strictly speaking reenter doesn't meet CFI because the meaning is easily derived from the sum of its parts. Renard Migrant (talk) 01:04, 3 October 2014 (UTC)

No I'm wrong as reenter isn't an expression. CFI doesn't mention the matter at all. Renard Migrant (talk) 16:23, 8 October 2014 (UTC)