Talk:stormtrooper

Hi,

This term recently came up on the Mozilla mailing lists.

I maintain the Australian English dictionary files for many projects(http://www.dictionary.JustLocal.com.au) and as best as I can tell, joining the two words as one appears to be specific to Star Wars.

All authoritative references and all spell checkers I reviewed, have storm trooper as two words.

May I suggest this entry be reviewed.

Regards,

Kelvin Eldridge

The place to do that is Requests for Verfification; I've copied your query there. --EncycloPetey 01:29, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

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I have reviewed the entry, but stormtrooper is well-attested in that one-word form. A few citations have been added to the page as illustration. As for authoritative dictionaries, the OED certainly recognises it. RFV removed. Widsith 13:37, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Copied to talk page. DAVilla 16:36, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

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stormtrooper

I don't think "stormtrooper" is particularly a Star Wars word, at least any more than, say, "hyperspace" or "blaster". bd2412 T 01:03, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

In the challenged sense it looks like it is. DCDuring TALK 01:20, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

Hmmm - "Imperial Stormtrooper", on the other hand...

• 2002, Christopher Brookmyre, Country of the Blind, p. 87:

  The young policeman had given up on playing the Imperial Stormtrooper and had sat down, loosening the strap on his semi-automatic so that it lay across his lap under the dismal tabloid.

• 2003, Paul McAuley, Whole Wide World, p. 66:

  The security guards in Imperial Stormtrooper body armour, better armed than any police, were not much impressed by my warrant card...

• 1999, Arthur Charles Clarke, Michael P. Kube-McDowell, The Trigger, p. 431:

  ... the young man with the short black hair and what looked like an Imperial stormtrooper’s utility belt under his black-and-red flannel shirt.

• 1997, Gerrie Lim, Inside the outsider: a decade of shooting the pop culture breeeze, p. 31:

  There'll be a little bit of the Imperial Stormtrooper thing with the boombox, along with a little bit of casual fingerpicking.

Cheers! bd2412 T 04:55, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

stormtrooper Imperial Stormtrooper and Imperial stormtrooper entries are all 3 cites short. DCDuring TALK 02:11, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

The above three cites suffice for Imperial Stormtrooper, which I would submit is the only one of the three to actually originate in Star Wars. bd2412 T 04:55, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

RFV failed, sense removed from [[stormtrooper]]. Thanks, BD2412, for the Imperial s/Stormtrooper cites; I've created those entries. —Ruakh_TALK 18:48, 17 December 2009 (UTC)