Talk:come to mention it

Part of speech

come to mention it is a phrase, but now you mention it is an adverb. Which PoS is right? —umbreon126 07:32, 4 April 2015 (UTC)

• @Umbreon126: We use "phrase" as a catchall for multi-word terms that do not have obvious "true" parts of speech. It is usually clear when a phrase is a noun phrase, so they almost always appear under a "Noun" header, but many other multi-word entries do not neatly fall into "true" PoS categories. "Adverb" itself is a catch-all, including manner adverbs (most of the words ending in "ly") and a host of other terms supposedly brought into the same class because they all "modify" a verb in a clause. Confusingly, the class is often deemed to include sentence adverbs that more accurately seem to modify a sentence as a whole, as the word confusingly arguably modifies this sentence rather than the word deemed. Both come to mention it and now you mention it function as one-word sentence adverbs do.

In light of this, what do you think is the more helpful header for such terms? Separately we can also add any number of labels, usage notes, and categories to provide some supplemental information and finding aids. DCDuring TALK 12:14, 4 April 2015 (UTC)

Correct part of speech? You're asking the wrong person （；´д｀） I don't know... —umbreon126 03:07, 5 April 2015 (UTC)