Talk:barbarious
Latest comment: 16 years ago by Ruakh in topic barbariousness
From rfd discussion of related term, before this entry was created:
defined as "The state or quality of being barbarious." but that is a misspelling of barbarous. — This unsigned comment was added by RJFJR (talk • contribs) at 17:34, 10 February 2008 (UTC).
- Barbariousness gets 32 hits on b.g.c. If it were really strictly a misspelling, I'd say it didn't warrant a "common misspelling of" entry, but it's not quite; it's a misconstruction, perhaps combining (deprecated template usage) barbaric and (deprecated template usage) barbarous, and has a very distinct pronunciation. So, keep, but mark nonstandard. —RuakhTALK 22:15, 10 February 2008 (UTC)