Talk:daily paper

RFD discussion: May–December 2018

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daily paper

Entered as a synonym of daily. Seems to me akin to "monthly magazine" or "twice-yearly newsletter". (The fact that there are non-newspaper kinds of "paper" is IMO a red herring, as that argument equally supports entries for things like "conservative paper", "sensationalist paper".) Equinox ◑ 21:15, 5 May 2018 (UTC)

Weak delete. It would be interesting to know whether "daily" as a noun in this sense is a direct shortening of something like "daily paper" or "daily newspaper". After a cursory look I didn't find anything in support or contrary to that, but it may have some bearing on whether to keep daily paper. My inclination is to see it as SOP daily (adjective) + paper (sense 2). --SanctMinimalicen (talk) 22:04, 5 May 2018 (UTC)

Keep as a synonym. I don't think anything will be achieved by deleting this, and it may be helpful to those whose native language is not English. DonnanZ (talk) 07:44, 6 May 2018 (UTC)

Keep because paper has multiple meanings. SemperBlotto (talk) 07:49, 6 May 2018 (UTC)

Did you even read the-- oh well. Equinox ◑ 02:22, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

Just chalk it up alongside that rain triple entry.--SanctMinimalicen (talk) 02:24, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

Delete, SOP. Per utramque cavernam 11:25, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

Cambridge Advanced Learners has the following definition, which is marginally not SoP: "a newspaper that is published every day of the week except Sunday". They are the only OneLook reference with an entry. That would seem to be a UK def. DCDuring (talk) 00:26, 4 September 2018 (UTC)

Wow. Presumably this is just because we have (or had) a long history of biblically not doing things on Sundays. (In the 1990s, supermarkets started opening on Sunday because the amount they sold would easily pay the legal fines; the law changed shortly thereafter.) Does any older Brit recognise this meaning of "daily paper"? Blotto? Equinox ◑ 00:32, 4 September 2018 (UTC)

On second thoughts: I suppose you can contrast the "daily paper" with the "Sunday paper" (which is sometimes a special Sunday edition of the daily one, full of pull-outs etc.). But in that case, the problematic entry is daily (noun), which just says it's a paper published every day. Equinox ◑ 00:40, 4 September 2018 (UTC)

No consensus to delete. bd2412 T 02:20, 2 December 2018 (UTC)