Talk:confectionary

An erroneous sense?

Are we sure that noun definition number 2 is not a confusion with 'confectionery'? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 131.111.100.49 (talk • contribs) 11:33, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Perhaps. I shall RFV it. † ﴾^(u):Raifʻhār ^(t):Doremítzwr﴿ 03:47, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

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confectionary

Rfv-sense: (deprecated template usage) confectionary ≅ confectionery.
It’s marked as Australian, but it might just be non-standard. † ﴾^(u):Raifʻhār ^(t):Doremítzwr﴿ 03:49, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

It's in Macquarie, tagged as obsolete. However, it's also in the OED in this sense, with no tags but with the most recent citation from 1844. I would need some evidence that it is really Australian, and not just globally obsolete; an initial b.g.c. search gives no such indication, although this sense is difficult to filter from the others. Definitely real, in any event; note many occurrences of "confectionaries and sweetmeats" and vice versa. -- Visviva 11:31, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

I would think the context tag is wrong, that it is more general, certainly US. The OneLook dictionaries mostly include the sense, but not Oxford or Cambridge, so it might not be used in the UK. DCDuring TALK 11:35, 30 September 2008 (UTC)