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Latest comment: 9 years ago by BD2412 in topic RFD discussion: May–June 2015

RFD discussion: May–June 2015

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Wiktionary:Votes/pl-2007-07/Exclusion of possessive case specifically bans this kind of entry. It is not idiomatic: 's regularly has the effect it has in this case; I am going to the tobacconist's [shop] is no different from I am going to the doctor's [office] / to my aunt's [house] / to the mechanic's [shop] / to Fred's [house or restaurant or shop] / etc.
If anyone feels we need a place to store translations of "smoke shop", "doctor's office", etc, I will argue quite firmly that [[smoke shop]] and [[doctor's office]] (or indeed just [[tobacconist]], see sense 2) would be better translation targets than [[tobacconist's]] and [[doctor's]] even if we hadn't voted to ban the latter.
- -sche (discuss) 03:41, 26 May 2015 (UTC)Reply

I moved the translations from the second sense of "tobacconist" to "tobacconist's" to prepare for possible deletion. --Hekaheka (talk) 02:04, 27 May 2015 (UTC)Reply
How so? 86.152.163.37 11:43, 27 May 2015 (UTC)Reply
However -'s does cover this: In the absence of a specified object, used to indicate “the house/place/establishment of”. Perhaps this definition is new, but, it would seem to cover a lot of the usage we have like tobacconist's, confectioner's, butcher's, greengrocer's, chemist's. Renard Migrant (talk) 16:58, 27 May 2015 (UTC)Reply

Kept. bd2412 T 14:48, 11 June 2015 (UTC)Reply