Talk:Southron

RFV discussion: September–December 2014

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Southron

RFV-sense "A Scottish person coming from or living south of the Grampian area". The hits google books:"Southron" Scotland Grampian gets all seem to use sense 2 of southron, "an English person". - -sche (discuss) 19:06, 29 September 2014 (UTC)

• One citation here. Smurrayinchester (talk) 06:11, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

  Thanks; I've typed it up here. Like the "English person" sense, it seems to pertain to the lowercase form rather than the uppercase form. (Who knows, maybe the "Southern US person" sense is also more common in lowercase, in which case my creation of it in uppercase should be reconsidered.) - -sche (discuss) 16:14, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

In Ward Moore's famous alternate-history story Bring the Jubilee, "Southron" is basically an always capitalized noun... AnonMoos (talk) 03:00, 2 October 2014 (UTC)

• I've added three more citations. Two of them (1898, 2014) could possibly be adjectives, but I'm pretty sure that at least the 2014 cite is an attributive use of the noun. Given that none of them mention the Grampians specifically, maybe "A Scottish person from outside the Highlands, a Lowlander." would be a better definition. Smurrayinchester (talk) 07:53, 2 October 2014 (UTC)

  @Smurrayinchester where are those citations? I see nothing at Southron and Citations:Southron. --Dan Polansky (talk) 07:23, 6 December 2014 (UTC)

  They're all at the lower case form Citations:southron (as -sche said, there don't seem to be many upper-case uses of this word). Smurrayinchester (talk) 08:20, 6 December 2014 (UTC)

RFV-failed as a sense of Southron, added (in modified form) to southron. - -sche (discuss) 21:52, 10 December 2014 (UTC)