Talk:tasswage

RFV discussion: February 2021

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tasswage

A nonce contraction of to assuage in The Faerie Queene (book 4 canto 9) — every edition I can find inserts an apostrophe here, and we're not in the business of documenting every verb some poet has elided with t’ as a separate entry. 86.145.58.10 09:36, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

We used to include such nonces, back then, but I think we changed our rules so that now we don't. Equinox ◑ 11:48, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

Apparently removed in Wiktionary:Votes/pl-2014-03/CFI: Removing usage in a well-known work 3. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 20:08, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

Mostly I find this form (without an apostrophe) in middle English, but I managed to find two more examples besides Spencer in early modern English. Kiwima (talk) 23:47, 12 February 2021 (UTC)

RFV-passed Kiwima (talk) 09:11, 23 February 2021 (UTC)