Talk:animalike

Deletion discussion[edit]

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A misspelling of "animallike". It seems attested: google books:"animalike", google groups:"animalike", “animalike”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.. But this is not a common misspelling by any stretch (not found by Google Ngram Viewer at all), and should be deleted as a rare misspelling. animalike, animallike, animal-like at Google Ngram Viewer. For regulation, see WT:CFI#Spellings; for consensus, see Wiktionary:Votes/pl-2014-04/Keeping_common_misspellings; for previous practice of deleting rare misspellings, see talk:himand. --Dan Polansky (talk) 08:40, 26 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

anima-like seems to barely exist in Jungian writing, meaning "like an anima", but animalike doesn't seem to be used. Delete Not sure if it's worth having an article for "anima-like" - the hyphen makes it a totally transparent compound. Smurrayinchester (talk) 16:08, 26 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Should be created if this spelling of anima-like is found. My Pocket Oxford Dictionary considers that the -like suffix may be added to any noun, and that all these adjectives should be considered as English words. But I think that this theoretical existence is not sufficient, and that at least one attestation is required before creating the page. Lmaltier (talk) 10:29, 27 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Even animallike looks weird to Kiwi eyes. As for anima-like, well, if it exists it should be spelt that way, and not animalike. Donnanz (talk) 22:20, 8 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]