Talk:mail

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Rfv-sense: adjective (not comparable) "of or pertaining to mail/post".​—msh210℠ (talk) 18:10, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

RFV failed, adjective section removed. —Ruakh_TALK 02:16, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

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Rfv-senses: both adjective forms seem to be attributive uses of the noun. Mglovesfun (talk) 18:59, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

RFV-failed. - -sche (discuss) 18:21, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

Translations of the RFV-failed adjectives

• "postal" was only a trans-see redirect to postal.

armoured

• Finnish: rengaspanssari- (chain mail) (prefix in compound words)
• Greek: τεθωρακισμένος m (tethorakisménos)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Interlingua: de malia
• Portuguese: de malha

RFV discussion: August–December 2014

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mail

Could someone add an example for the purported synonymy between "to email" and "to mail" in this line: "mail (transitive): To send by electronic mail" in the mail entry. I have never heard "to mail" used to mean "to send an email". Thank you. 2604:2000:DFC0:100:DC6B:AC1F:3C8A:C3CE 17:43, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

 Done Equinox ◑ 17:57, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

"I need to mail my tutor"? Who says that? Not in my corner of the world. 184.153.73.221 18:31, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

The world has other corners than yours, believe it or not. Equinox ◑ 22:01, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Believe it or not, your quote sounds like you have to stuff your tutor into a box and ship him (to whom?) through you local post office. In what part of the Anglosphere have you ever heard that? 184.153.73.221 17:50, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

• The "mail my tutor" usage sounds strange to me too, so I've added an {{rfv-sense}} tag to the entry. The sense has two quotations already, so only one more will be needed to verify it. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 18:04, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Cited: somebody who saw a (supposed) virus "open my e-mail package and start to mail my friends". Perhaps it needs a UK gloss? Equinox ◑ 05:40, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

I've heard it in America too. --WikiTiki89 13:43, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

• RFV passed: quotations for "To contact (a person) by electronic mail" are at mail. --Dan Polansky (talk) 17:28, 5 December 2014 (UTC)

delivered/collected

There seems to be a technical difference in England between the terms for letters and parcels delivered to you and collected from you. ‘Post’ gets put through the letterbox but you post your letters in a postbox which has two sections called ‘franked mail’ and ‘stamped mail’ so when it gets collected from the postbox by the Royal Mail it must officially become ‘mail’ at that point! Overlordnat1 (talk) 11:23, 12 August 2022 (UTC)