Talk:aabredsel

RFD discussion: March 2021–March 2022

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aabredsel

The letter "å" used to be spelled "aa" in Norwegian and Danish, following this logic there could be an "older spelling" article of every word containing "å", with "aa" instead. This is redundant and I suggest we weed out the few entries which have been created, but keep aa. There's also aabod, aabry and aabryde. But these have different spellings in other ways too so I didn't tag them, however they are not in any dictionary so I suggest these should be removed as well if anyone else agrees. Supevan (talk) 16:53, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

See also Talk:taake for previous discussion.__Gamren (talk) 01:20, 17 March 2021 (UTC)

I see no reason at all to delete attested obsolete spellings just because their modern equivalents are predictable. —Mahāgaja · talk 07:05, 17 March 2021 (UTC)

I'd contend that they're not really "obsolete spellings"; it's the typography as a whole that is obsolete. Thus it's similar to the question of ſ, which has been raised multiple times over the years, except that it's a digraph.__Gamren (talk) 10:17, 17 March 2021 (UTC)

Keep, no currently valid rationale for deletion. Wiktionary:About Norwegian#Obsolete spellings does not exclude spellings used after 1907. If you want to exclude all obsolete spellings with <aa> (a justifiable position in itself), you should hammer out a consensus policy with other Norwegian editors, not RFD them individually. ←₰-→ Lingo ^Bingo _Dingo (talk) 11:24, 21 March 2021 (UTC)

RFD-kept (at least for now). Thadh (talk) 00:35, 18 March 2022 (UTC)