Talk:kiloöhm

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kiloöhm

Afrikaans technical protologism. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 05:09, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

I don't see how kiloöhm is any more of protologism in Afrikaans than kiloohm is in English. —Angr 10:26, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

I don't know about Afrikaans, but this is far more dubious as an English spelling. Although one cite is given, it could easily be a typo/scanno. Neither de:Georg Ohm nor the unit de:ohm take an umlaut, even in German. I would like to extend the RFV to the whole entry. SpinningSpark 11:05, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

I think the trema is indicating diaeresis, not umlaut. — Ungoliant ^(Falai) 11:14, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

@Spinningspark: Well it could only be diaeresis. You can RFV the whole entry if you like, but then you should best create a new section.

@Angr: It's more of a protologism because English kiloohm is actually used, and Afrikaans kiloöhm hardly at all. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 15:57, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

Really? What do Afrikaans speakers call the kiloohm then? Just kilohm with one O, as SpinningSpark says English-speaking electrical engineers do? —Angr 14:34, 14 August 2013 (UTC)

A quick search of Afrikaans Wikipedia shows only "kilo-ohm" (probably not much help, as it is a pretty minimal -pedia). SemperBlotto (talk) 15:08, 14 August 2013 (UTC)

That would seem more likely in terms of Afrikaans orthography, although I don't know if that's citable (I'll try). Unfortunately, Afrikaans is not a language used much for science and scientific terms may be rarely used for the sam reason that normal day-to-day conversation rarely uses them. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 15:15, 14 August 2013 (UTC)

Well, I checked, and I came up with two cites at Citations:kilo-ohm, one of which is durable and the other seems to be a non-durable copy of a durable work, but I'm not quite sure. I also found a couple cites here, but I don't know if they're durable. So somebody ought to look these over and if they find three of these cites that meet CFI, we can move the entry to kilo-ohm. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 15:32, 14 August 2013 (UTC)

Is Afrikaans an LDL? If so, it would be sufficient to find it in a dictionary, which is quite plausible. Considering it's a language of instruction at several universities and doubtless numerous technical universities/technikons, it ought to be findable in electrical engineering textbooks (though I suspect that, as in English, the abbreviation kΩ will be orders of magnitude more common). —Angr 16:21, 14 August 2013 (UTC)

It’s not, I’m afraid this will need three uses. I’ll try to find some, Afrikaans is pretty cool. — Ungoliant ^(Falai) 16:28, 14 August 2013 (UTC)

No luck. — Ungoliant ^(Falai) 16:19, 16 August 2013 (UTC)

What do you think of the kilo-ohm cites? (See my last comment in this thread.) —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 19:49, 17 August 2013 (UTC)

RFV-failed. - -sche (discuss) 01:49, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

kiloöhm

Opening separate thread for English as suggested above. Unlikely spelling in English. The diaeresis makes sense, but I have been an electrical engineer for more than forty years and have never seen it used. EEs never pronounce it this way in any case, they always say kilohm. At the very least it should be marked archaic. SpinningSpark 18:34, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

Google Books, Groups and Scholar all get nothing. I can't even think where else to look. Mglovesfun (talk) 09:52, 14 August 2013 (UTC)

Oh it's a Doremítzwr entry; he's become famous since he stopped editing for making stuff up, especially archaisms that look right but aren't actually used. Mglovesfun (talk) 09:55, 14 August 2013 (UTC)

I could see the New Yorker using this spelling (do they have searchable text archives?) That wouldn't make it standard though. DTLHS (talk) 17:13, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

re "I can't even think where else to look", I would expect it to turn up in IEEEXplore if it exists, but it doesn't. SpinningSpark 19:04, 9 November 2013 (UTC)

RFV-failed. - -sche (discuss) 01:49, 7 January 2014 (UTC)