Talk:tat
Latest comment: 9 years ago by Dbfirs in topic RFV discussion: August–October 2014
English needs splitting by etymology, but are there two or three? Equinox ◑ 20:21, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
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Re sense 3: "a form of looped and knotted lace needlework made from a single thread". In every dictionary I've checked, "tat" in reference to lacework is only a verb, the noun being "tatting". JudahH (talk) 16:00, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
- In case you don't have access to the full Oxford English Dictionary, it has no less than eight separate noun entries for "tat", and not one of them matches sense 3. I agree that the correct noun for this sense is tatting. The disputed sense was added by CharlieHuang nearly eight years ago and is the only English entry by this now-inactive editor. I'm surprised that it hasn't been challenged before. Dbfirs 16:19, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
- In the absence of any citations, may we remove this mistaken sense? Dbfirs 06:55, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
- It's been two months now so I've removed the error and moved the Finnish translation to tatting. I hope this is OK. Dbfirs 16:38, 23 October 2014 (UTC)