Talk:doordeweek

RFV discussion: December 2020–January 2021

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doordeweek

This connected spelling is difficult to attest and is probably a (rare) misspelling in any case. Can be moved to door de week if this fails, because I think it is idiomatic. ←₰-→ Lingo ^Bingo _Dingo (talk) 13:18, 28 December 2020 (UTC)

It does not occur in the official Woordenlijst, finds no recognition here and even explicit disapproval here, which however implies it does occur. Some uses can be seen here (in a book title!), here, here and here. The three-word version has an (IMO) opaque meaning and so deserves an entry.  --Lambiam 14:33, 28 December 2020 (UTC)

@Lambiam So I guess this will pass insofar RFV is concerned, but it could probably be removed in RFD as a rare misspelling? ←₰-→ Lingo ^Bingo _Dingo (talk) 20:08, 28 December 2020 (UTC)

I am not sure how to decide whether a misspelling is rare, but apparently people wonder how they should spell the term and so may attempt to look it up. Personally I’d be OK either way: with keeping doordeweek while noting that this univerbated orthographic innovation is met with opprobrium from those in the know, or with merely observing this at a new entry door de week.  --Lambiam 23:42, 28 December 2020 (UTC)

If I search for "door de week" on Google Books I get 77,400 results, but for "doordeweek" I get 1,040 results and many of them, quite possibly a majority of them, are scannos of door de week. "Rare misspelling" is ill-defined, but it is policy not to keep rare ones. Dan Polansky was wont to use a heuristic that a misspelling with fewer than 1% of the results of a main spelling should be considered rare.

That said, I am not opposed to some form of inclusion of this form, such as a soft redirect; it is not really deductively provable that this is a misspelling so including it anyway does not really override CFI. A hard redirect is another option. ←₰-→ Lingo ^Bingo _Dingo (talk) 10:27, 29 December 2020 (UTC)

RFV kept, I'll turn it into a soft redirect. ←₰-→ Lingo ^Bingo _Dingo (talk) 18:25, 5 January 2021 (UTC)