Talk:witherwin

RFV discussion: April–May 2020

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witherwin

Yet another word which seems to have little to no attestations beyond the Middle English period. I couldn't verify the quote that's currently on the page, and Google Books turns up lots of mentions but no real uses. Hazarasp (parlement · werkis) 14:37, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

I found the quote that was currently there and added a link. I also found a second quote and added it. We still need a third, but the only other things I can find were either clearly Middle English (or even Old English), or were quotes in dictionaries where I don't know the source. Kiwima (talk) 23:12, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

This terms has an alternative form, widderwin, of which I have added the third citation. Leasnam (talk) 04:05, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

I looked to see if the EDD had anything, and they do not, although they have witherwine = withwind. - -sche (discuss) 21:10, 14 May 2020 (UTC)

RFV-passed Kiwima (talk) 21:41, 14 May 2020 (UTC)

I register my longstanding position that we need three citations of the word witherwin to keep it, not two citations of it ad one citation of a different word/spelling widderwin. If it's so bottom-of-the-barrel rare that there aren't three citations of it, it's not something that someone "will run across and want to know the meaning of". (Previous discussions include Talk:Devil's Triangle, which I came back across today while fixing uses of a TOC limit template.) - -sche (discuss) 20:07, 19 May 2020 (UTC)