Talk:famish

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RFV discussion: November–December 2020[edit]

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The page for fame-ish claims that famish is a dialectal variation, but that page lists only the word meaning "to starve". Can we attest "famish" as a variant spelling of "fame-ish" (and also "fameish", for that matter, which is currently a redlink)?

And while I'm here, why does famish use /a/ in the RP transcription instead of /æ/? I know Oxford Dictionaries now use /a/, but it is misleading in a multilingual dictionary such as Wiktionary. — Paul G (talk) 07:14, 8 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I found two for "fameish", which I put on the Citations page. As for "famish", all I could find was the following:
  • 2011, Del Louis, “In a famish land”, in Heated Blues: Observation on Loss and Longing, page 33:
    Took a page from your principles before more famish I could no longer be the lull in your deception And what's next and forthcoming valor Alen's Patriots with a forte to squeeze back every prick's dream of elitists.
Kiwima (talk) 22:21, 8 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

RFV-failed Kiwima (talk) 22:45, 10 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]