Talk:dear Sir
Latest comment: 4 years ago by Dan Polansky in topic RFD discussion: November 2019–April 2020
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SOP.—msh210℠ (talk) 11:38, 1 November 2019 (UTC)
- Keep. I do not think combining the meanings of the parts allows one to conclude that this is a dated formal salutation used in letters. --Lambiam 10:26, 3 November 2019 (UTC)
- Move to the appendix called "How we used to write letters before Twitter". Equinox ◑ 10:30, 3 November 2019 (UTC)
- Dear Sir Equinox, maybe Twitter should be scrapped. I'm inclined to keep this. And "Dear sir or madam" is/was used when you don't know who is going to read the letter. DonnanZ (talk) 11:08, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
- You're an idiot. And Twitter should definitely be scrapped. Equinox ◑ 05:22, 1 January 2020 (UTC)
- Delete. There are lots of common phrases which are not words, and thus not the domain of a dictionary. If we wanted to document all sentences and sentence fragments this might have a place here. - TheDaveRoss 16:33, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
- ? We have lots of entries that are common phrases which are not words (e.g. I told you so, and your little dog too, beware of the dog, bowler hat out, cooking with gas, could have fooled me, dot or feather, down with, fair is fair, goose is cooked, in love with, leave me alone, mother of all, not your father's, one thing led to another, rumor has it, that'll be the day, what's up with, who knew, you're telling me). --Lambiam 18:53, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
- This is not a noun. It's a phrase --Vealhurl (talk) 21:36, 15 November 2019 (UTC)
- ? We have lots of entries that are common phrases which are not words (e.g. I told you so, and your little dog too, beware of the dog, bowler hat out, cooking with gas, could have fooled me, dot or feather, down with, fair is fair, goose is cooked, in love with, leave me alone, mother of all, not your father's, one thing led to another, rumor has it, that'll be the day, what's up with, who knew, you're telling me). --Lambiam 18:53, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
- For me, this is an obvious keep. John Cross (talk) 15:24, 16 November 2019 (UTC)
- Inclined to keep per Lambiam. Falls in the same category as other conventional formulas largely restricted to particular narrow usage contexts, like once upon a time, to whom it may concern, etc. — Vorziblix (talk · contribs) 05:19, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
- RFD-kept: no consensus to delete. --Dan Polansky (talk) 08:21, 18 April 2020 (UTC)