Talk:chink in the armor

RFV discussion: March 2015

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chink in the armor

I'm sure it's OK, but the contributor forgot about, or ignored, the British spelling armour. Is there another way of expressing it, e.g. chink in one's armour? Donnanz (talk) 23:06, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

Sometimes, if we are diligent, we add one redirect for each common variant. In this case it would be the possessive pronouns in place of the. In this case it is not just possessive pronouns that could fit in that slot but the possessives of many nouns, proper and common, but we think users can manage that. Whether the lemma form has one's or the doesn't matter that much — if we are diligent. DCDuring TALK 23:24, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

It's getting Google Book hits. What's being disputed here? Nominator says "I'm sure it's OK". Renard Migrant (talk) 20:46, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

With mods to the entry I'm now satisfied. I will leave it a week to see if any further comments are forthcoming before withdrawing the RFV. Donnanz (talk) 00:13, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

chink(s) in ... armor gets 92 hits at COCA. 37 use the. The rest use a possessive of a nominal, ie, more than half. At the very least we should have redirects from forms using all the possessive personal pronouns and a usage note. DCDuring TALK 01:39, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

The contributor is now permanently banned for persistently making dodgy entries, so this must have been one of the better entries made. By the way, Oxford has "a chink in someone's armour". Donnanz (talk) 10:41, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Do we have a Google Books Ngrams template yet? Ngrams has plenty of hits for it, and less for "chink in one's armo(u)r" (but still some). Renard Migrant (talk) 12:22, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

@User:Renard Migrant: {{R:GNV}}. --Dan Polansky (talk) 05:53, 19 March 2015 (UTC)