Talk:Pollyanning

RFV discussion: October 2011–March 2012

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Pollyanning

pollyanning

I assume this would be a two-component misspelling of Pollyannaing, which might be a word. DCDuring TALK 02:33, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

Yes, that sounds more likely, or even Pollyanna-ing. I find the juxtaposition of "a" and "i" very odd. In any case, we need citations if we are to keep any form. Dbfirs 12:52, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

I'm not sure that any one form of the participle meets CFI. For example, some find the oddness to require a hyphen. I'm not really sure that this kind of conversion is worth a separate section, ie, Pollyanna#Verb. The Pollyanna entry seems to be encyclopedic in its second sense, which might belong in an etymology section if we were better about including sense evolution in our etymology sections. DCDuring TALK 13:54, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

You know when I first added this entry I added, pollyann with the conjugated links to pollyanned, pollyanning, and pollyanns, I have heard all of these used and I in fact had cited pollyanning thrice if any admin would be kind enough to dig it up please.Acdcrocks 09:30, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

I've moved the entry to Pollyanning, but I think it still fails because the quotations do not support a single part of speech. - -sche (discuss) 01:12, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

Deleted. - -sche (discuss) 03:03, 3 March 2012 (UTC)