Talk:pandæmonium

I think that these ligature words are getting a bit out of hand, I am all for including them as alternate spellings, but using them as headwords is ludacris. Google search results for various spellings: pandæmonium - 1240 pandamonium (an incorrect spelling mind you) - 148,000 pandaemonium - 70,700 and pandemonium - 1,140,000. Of the æ pages I couldn't find any which weren't proper nouns (mostly about Milton's Paradise Lost), is there any argument that this is more than an archaic spelling? Listing pandemonium as "an alternative spelling of pandæmonium is just inaccurate, and I don't know what Marius' fetish is with these words, but the headword should be the modern common usage, nothing else. - TheDaveRoss

I think the point was to tag them into a category. Perhaps they should be listed as {{dated}}?

There should be a headword entry for "all words." If dated or obsolete they should be so noted, but the entry certinaly should exist, unless the entire premise of Wiktionary has changed. --Connel MacKenzie 03:17, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

I wasn't trying to say that this article shouldn't exist, I am saying that this is the one which has the definition and the others are all listed as "alternate spellings of," which isn't strictly true, those are the modern spellings while this is an obsolete variation. My point is that the ligatured words should, for the most part, be listed as alternate spellings of the modern, rather than the converse. - TheDaveRoss