Talk:dictatories

RFV discussion: January–February 2021

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dictatories

1. (nonstandard) plural of dictate
2. (nonstandard) plural of dictatorship

J3133 (talk) 13:25, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

I have added two cites to the citations page. Kiwima (talk) 20:48, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

@Kiwima: The cites do not show this is a plural of dictate or dictatorship. J3133 (talk) 08:44, 30 January 2021 (UTC)

What is it a plural of then? DTLHS (talk) 17:10, 30 January 2021 (UTC)

@DTLHS: Non sequitur. J3133 (talk) 17:14, 30 January 2021 (UTC)

I don't know what that means. I can't find any evidence of "dictatory" being a noun. DTLHS (talk) 17:15, 30 January 2021 (UTC)

Fortunately for you, dictionaries were created. J3133 (talk) 17:17, 30 January 2021 (UTC)

@Kiwima, DTLHS Deleted by Equinox: “nonsense” (I agree). J3133 (talk) 10:52, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

While it's surely not a plural of either of those words, that doesn't seem like a good reason to delete it altogether. If we can't show that dictatory is used as a noun in this sense, we'll simply have to, for lack of knowledge, make dictatories a lemma.__Gamren (talk) 21:00, 3 February 2021 (UTC)