Talk:re-explain

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Deletion discussion[edit]

The following information passed a request for deletion.

This discussion is no longer live and is left here as an archive. Please do not modify this conversation, but feel free to discuss its conclusions.


The hyphen eliminates any possible ambiguity. --Romanophile (talk) 06:22, 1 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

  • Then why put this entry up for deletion? This is standard practice in British English. Keep without question. There are numerous re-e words like this, too numerous to list here, but re-enter is one of them. I think the hyphen is included because each "e" has a different vowel sound. Donnanz (talk) 09:22, 1 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    I think Romanophile is suggesting that this is SoP for the reason stated. As it is the preferred spelling (over both reenter and reënter) we should keep it. I think WT:COALMINE provides another rationale for keeping it. DCDuring TALK 12:01, 1 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    We never consider single words SOP on the basis of their morphemes, even if they're always spelled with a hyphen. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 12:48, 1 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I’ll just close this request then (unless Equinox chimes in). --Romanophile (talk) 15:28, 1 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It's a single word and de facto we don't ask that single words be idiomatic, though WT:CFI makes no exemption for single words! Strictly speaking reenter doesn't meet CFI because the meaning is easily derived from the sum of its parts. Renard Migrant (talk) 01:04, 3 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
No I'm wrong as reenter isn't an expression. CFI doesn't mention the matter at all. Renard Migrant (talk) 16:23, 8 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]