Talk:choppin'

RFV discussion: June 2015

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choppin'

Eye-dialect spelling of chopping. Plausible, but is it attested? — I.S.M.E.T.A. 14:14, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

I've added four quotations. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 14:50, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

@Mr. Granger: They're excellent. Thank you. — I.S.M.E.T.A. 14:52, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ @Mr. Granger: Hmm. On closer inspection, the 2007 Mayshark and 2012 citations look like verbal nouns to me. Since this spelling has four citations, does it pass, or does each POS need three citations each? — I.S.M.E.T.A. 16:15, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

I'd be inclined not to be too picky on PoS of alternative forms of inflected forms, like "ing"-forms and deverbal "ed" forms. DCDuring TALK 17:36, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

Do you think we should also take the trouble to attest to the attributive (adjectival) use of choppin' apparent in Right now I gotta find a choppin' ax to get some of the brush cleared out'a the road. or is that attributive use of the gerund? DCDuring TALK 17:43, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

@DCDuring: Well, "a choppin' ax", used in that sense, is an axe used for choppin', where "choppin'" is a verbal noun (gerund), I think. — I.S.M.E.T.A. 21:42, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

I still think it is not worth extra attestation effort, compared to, say correcting the implication that the Noun definition at chopping is only applicable to chop when it is transitive, which is simply an error, or to add the missing intransitve senses of chop#Verb that other dictionaries have (See MWOnline). DCDuring TALK 22:52, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

@DCDuring: No, I agree with you; it should be entirely sufficient to find three citations of the spelling, irrespective of the sense(s) in which the word is used with that spelling. The point, however, is moot, as Mr. Granger has kindly obliged us by thrice citing both parts of speech. — I.S.M.E.T.A. 13:58, 9 June 2015 (UTC)

I've added two more quotations. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 03:03, 8 June 2015 (UTC)

@Mr. Granger: Thank you, again. Note my tweak, BTW. — I.S.M.E.T.A. 13:58, 9 June 2015 (UTC)

• RFV passed: attesting quotations are in the entry. --Dan Polansky (talk) 19:09, 19 June 2015 (UTC)