Talk:well-rested

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well-rested

well-rested ?--Rockpilot 00:05, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

Unsure. It's quite a productive prefix - well-trained, well-exercised, well-fed, well-done, well-written, well-travelled, well-known and well-behaved are among some of the more common ones. I am not quite certain about the criteria to include them here. Where is the line drawn? Jamesjiao → ^{T ◊ C} 01:10, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

Are there any speakers who productively produce "more well-X" instead of "better-X"? If not, then I imagine that use of "more well-X", for a given X, indicates that a speaker is thinking of "well-X" as a single unit, rather than as "well" + "X". I dunno. —Ruakh_TALK 02:05, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

I suspect the answer to your first question, Ruakh, is "yes", but I have no evidence.​—msh210℠ (talk) 17:57, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

Keep, as a single attested word. Ƿidsiþ 13:39, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

Delete, not a single word, but well + rested linked with a hyphen as opposed to a space. Mglovesfun (talk) 13:43, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

wellrested is also common, so WT:COALMINE may be relevant. Ƿidsiþ 13:59, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

Keep: I would be happy to declare all hyphenated compounds single words for the sake of CFI, on equal footing with closed compounds. A related discussion is in #ex-Scientologist of April, 2011 (later to be found at talk:ex-Scientologist). --Dan Polansky 21:13, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

I wouldn't.  :-)  Delete (unless COALMINE applies, in which case, of course, keep).​—msh210℠ (talk) 17:57, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

It does satisfy COALMINE. Most of the hits at google books:"wellrested" are actually instances of well-<newline>rested (where Google Books interprets the hyphen as being solely due to the newline, so indexes it as "wellrested" rather than "well-rested"), and some are instances of well<space>rested where Google Books failed to see the space; but enough are actual instances of wellrested. For example: [1][2][3][4][5]. —Ruakh_TALK 18:10, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

kept per WT:COALMINE -- Liliana • 04:50, 19 October 2011 (UTC)