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Extremely rare misspelling – if occurring at all. --Lambiam 14:49, 3 October 2021 (UTC)
- It does occur. I propose moving to RFV. DAVilla 19:22, 5 October 2021 (UTC)
- Does it? I mean, really, in durably archived media? --Lambiam 11:03, 6 October 2021 (UTC)
- Delete as a rare misspelling. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 22:34, 5 October 2021 (UTC)
- We ought to move to RFV although I find this spelling preposterous, personally. Equinox ◑ 03:04, 6 October 2021 (UTC)
- Move to RfV per the above. The Google search to which DAVilla points has only turned up false starts for me, but it is possible hits actually exist. If it does, it is not necessarily a misspelling. Words evolve. At one point wellbeing, wellborn, and welldoing were probably exclusively two word phrases. bd2412 T 06:03, 10 October 2021 (UTC)
- RFV is not helpful. Even if the spelling has been used three times, it can be deleted as a rare misspelling unless those uses are significant relative to the standard spelling(s). Vox Sciurorum (talk) 16:29, 13 October 2021 (UTC)
- Has this happened before? Who exactly is making the decision that it's a misspelling? DAVilla 04:33, 18 October 2021 (UTC)
- See Wiktionary:CFI#Spellings. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 20:25, 20 October 2021 (UTC)
- Oh right. Well that does leave it open to interpretation, tho. As far as I'm concerned, if it's intentional (not an obvious typo) then it's legit. DAVilla 08:10, 23 October 2021 (UTC)
- See Wiktionary:CFI#Spellings. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 20:25, 20 October 2021 (UTC)
- Has this happened before? Who exactly is making the decision that it's a misspelling? DAVilla 04:33, 18 October 2021 (UTC)
- RFV is not helpful. Even if the spelling has been used three times, it can be deleted as a rare misspelling unless those uses are significant relative to the standard spelling(s). Vox Sciurorum (talk) 16:29, 13 October 2021 (UTC)
Moved to RFV (Wiktionary:Requests_for_verification/English#wellrested). — Fytcha〈 T | L | C 〉 04:41, 11 January 2022 (UTC)
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Moved over from Wiktionary:Requests_for_deletion/English#wellrested. — Fytcha〈 T | L | C 〉 04:40, 11 January 2022 (UTC)
- I found this:
- 1993, Richard Wright, Lawd today![2], page 155:
- She said she wanted all her men to be wellrested […]
- However, it is a modern reprint (the author died in 1960), and all the hyphens seem to have been lost. On the same page we have hundredcarat and twolegged.
- This quote seems more legitimate, and other words (co-conspirator) are hyphenated in the text:
- 2004, Lynsay Sands, The chase, page 194:This, that and the other (talk) 05:14, 11 January 2022 (UTC)
- The women had slept on the last part of the ride to Dunbar so that they would be wellrested when they arrived and could slip off again while the men recovered from the journey.
cited Kiwima (talk) 23:07, 11 January 2022 (UTC)
- In the first citation, the word is split up by a newline so it's impossible to tell whether well-rested or wellrested was intended. I don't think we should count that. — Fytcha〈 T | L | C 〉 00:57, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
- That citation also has several occurrences of well-rested with a visible hyphen, so it seems pretty obvious that the occurrences split by line breaks also stand for the hyphenated attributive version of the transparent predicate well rested (which also occurs as such in the cited article). --Lambiam 12:53, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
Added two from Usenet. 70.172.194.25 21:42, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
RFV-passed. — Fytcha〈 T | L | C 〉 04:00, 22 January 2022 (UTC)