Talk:murzyn
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Is it really the case that speakers distinguish these as separate words by capitalization? The dictionaries linked in each entry's "further reading" suggest it is not, and that all the senses should be moved to murzyn. (Probably the occasional capitalization of the term is like with English a black man vs a Black man, where we centralize the content at black with Black as an alt form.) (The debate over how offensive the term is is a separate matter.) - -sche (discuss) 03:32, 11 September 2020 (UTC)
- @-sche, yes, it is really the case. Murzyn in the sense "a black person" is always written with capital M.
- The "further reading" links are search pages that find two separate entries: Murzyn murzyn
- WSJP also has separate entries: Murzyn murzyn
- — JWilk (talk) 19:24, 29 December 2020 (UTC)
- @-sche Is this discussion resolved? - excarnateSojourner (talk | contrib) 04:25, 19 October 2022 (UTC)
- I'm going to step in and say yes these terms are indeed distinguished that way and honestly yes this is closed. Vininn126 (talk) 08:48, 19 October 2022 (UTC)