Talk:villegiatura

RFD discussion: March–April 2018

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villegiatura

• villegiatura is a spelling mistake. The correct word is villeggiatura, for the English definition (see [1])

There is no word corresponding to villegiatura in English. --Les Yeux Noirs (talk) 19:38, 17 March 2018 (UTC)

This seems like a WT:RFV question; the spelling does seem to be attested, especially in older texts but also in some modern ones, and apparently also in Italian. - -sche (discuss) 19:47, 17 March 2018 (UTC)

• (villegiatura*4), villeggiatura at the Google Books Ngram Viewer. suggests the allegged misspelling villegiatura is four times rarer than the alleggedly correct spelling. Unless Ngram contains some mistake, the spelling is attested. The spelling should not be deleted since we keep common misspellings per WT:CFI#Spellings. It could be marked as a misspelling, but the frequency ratio of 4 does not recommend that to me. --Dan Polansky (talk) 21:38, 17 March 2018 (UTC)

Kept: this form was claimed to be a misspelling; if it were claimed to be a rare misspelling, that would have been be a discussable RFD rationale, but it also would have been wrong: the spelling is attested so commonly that, if it is not simply an alternative spelling, it is at least a keepable misspelling. - -sche (discuss) 17:29, 14 April 2018 (UTC)