Talk:godwink

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Protologism? Used by a single author? SemperBlotto (talk) 07:23, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

• The term was recognized in various publications as a "new word of the year", or reasonable equivalent. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/24/weekinreview/24barrett.html I am not religious, and I had not heard of either Rushnell, or godwink, until I came across a related MFD. I did a google search and seemed to find the term widely re-used. What did you find with your google search? Geo Swan (talk) 08:53, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

You may not be aware of WT:CFI#Attestation. A simple Google search means nothing, you can get hits for absolute nonsense on Google. Mglovesfun (talk)

Here a few: the original coining, plus some independent uses. The single word form is hard to attest, but "God wink", in various forms of capitalisation/hyphenation is easier:

Smurrayinchester (talk) 12:46, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

It does seem that this spelling may not be citable. Until it is, we might have a redirect to a citable form, apparently God wink. The ambiguity of spelling is certainly suggestive that it is or is becoming idiomatic. The context in which its meaning is lexically understood rather than constructed from its parts may be quite limited. DCDuring TALK 14:17, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

• I have no objection to placing this entry at god wink. Geo Swan (talk) 15:48, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

Godwink seems to be the spelling SQuire uses, but outside his books God wink prevails (apparently "godwink" is a trademark of SQuire's...). I dug up two more godwinks, so it's probably attestable (as long as one use by him is acceptable), but I don't know which should be the alternative form of which.

Smurrayinchester (talk) 20:08, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

Here are two more citations:

A remarkable "coincidence"--a godwink--had reunited a long lost mother and daughter. What are the odds of that? [1]

THI$ I$ YOUR GODWINK [2] --BB12 (talk) 21:26, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

@BB12: The first groups citation is quoting Rushnell, isn't it?

@SMW: I'd make the more common one the main form. From the evidence the "trademarked" form is the source. DCDuring TALK 22:58, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

You are correct, thank you! --BB12 (talk) 23:48, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

@DCDuring I think he only came up with one word form some time around 2006 - possibly for copyright reasons. His earlier books use "God Wink". Pages created. Smurrayinchester (talk) 08:05, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

RFV-passed. - -sche (discuss) 04:58, 7 October 2012 (UTC)