Talk:diſtinguiſh

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diſtinguiſh

diſtinguiſhed

diſtinguiſhing

firſt

perſon

perſons

These aren't archaic spellings, they have identical spellings to the modern forms, just using an obsolete form of the Latin letter s. Note the recent failures of houer (hover) and wiues (wives). Mglovesfun (talk) 14:02, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

• Hard redirect, or weak delete. (Houer and wiues cannot redirect and so should definitely be kept as {{obsolete spelling of}}s.) Ƿidsiþ 14:24, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

• Delete. I've now added support for ſ→s to our "did-you-mean" stuff; so, for example, [[ſiſter]] now JavaScript-redirects to [[sister]]. (Obviously that can't be done with u→v, though.) —Ruakh_TALK 16:04, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
  • Brilliant. Thanks.​—msh210℠ (talk) 21:19, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
  • Cool; thank you.--Prosfilaes 22:16, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
• If there's no language known to us that distinguishes these characters (i.e., with a minimal pair) then delete (despite the possibility that such language may turn up).​—msh210℠ (talk) 21:19, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
  • I'm all for redirecting them, but there are minimal pairs in German--which doesn't use the long s at the end of morpheme boundaries. The classic one--and the only one I've seen--is Wachstube, which in Fraktur would be Wachſtube (Wach-Stube or guardhouse) or Wachstube (Wachs-Tube or wax tube). It's not worth not redirecting them to me; we should leave a note on Wachstube, or even Fraktur spellings on every German page, IMO, but it does exist.--Prosfilaes 22:16, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
    • There are many many more. Consider German genitives and you can create literally infinite minimal pairs. There are some others as well, like Versendung (verse ending) vs. Verſendung (sending) or Kreischen (diminutive form of Kreis) vs. Kreiſchen (shriek). -- Prince Kassad 23:19, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
      • Ah. Still, nobody is going to search on these; it would be much more valuable to have notes on Fraktur spelling in the main article then separate articles.--Prosfilaes 04:38, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

deleted -- Liliana • 14:58, 19 July 2011 (UTC)