Talk:teennap

RFV discussion: March–April 2023

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teennap

One use in BGC. — SURJECTION ^{/ T / C / L /} 07:06, 17 March 2023 (UTC)

If you do a Google Books search for "teennapped" or "teennapping" there are more uses. 2600:1006:B14E:C6CD:0:17:9804:9B01 14:18, 17 March 2023 (UTC)

"teennapped" has the only result (the one I mentioned). "teennaps" and "teennapping" have none, while the two results for "teennap" are both in Hungarian. — SURJECTION ^{/ T / C / L /} 16:48, 17 March 2023 (UTC)

The Hungarian ones are also cross-column scan errors. I can't find anything beyond what you've listed either. —Al-Muqanna المقنع (talk) 16:52, 17 March 2023 (UTC)

"Teen-napping" and "teen-napped" have Google Books results. Maybe this should be moved to teen-nap. 2600:1006:B14E:C6CD:0:17:9804:9B01 17:03, 17 March 2023 (UTC)

If there are three valid cites, it will be just barely so. I can only find two .... a vampire fiction book for young readers called Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Cursed Coven, and a book called The Twelve Days of Dash & Lily (since it wont highlight it for me, i found the query string on page 77 about halfway down). There are other results returned, yes, ... a self-published book about werewolves, some obviously unrelated uses, and a few unreadable targets. It's sometimes the case that Google Books will return books as positive for a given query string when they do not in fact contain it ... try searching Google Books for the string did not choose to comply with her wishes if you're doubtful, and you'll see what I mean.

So we have two valid cites through Google Books. Google Books isn't the only place in the world to look, and I could certainly believe that if there are two uses of this phrase indexed by Google that there are many more lurking in traditional print media ... this phrase is surely old enough to have been used over and over again .... but finding those others will take a lot more effort. —Soap— 20:06, 17 March 2023 (UTC)

Here is a use of "teen-napping psycho"; not sure if adjective or verb. This, that and the other (talk) 01:26, 18 March 2023 (UTC)

Thanks. I've added that and the two that I found, so we have the sought-after three cites. And I dont see any way that they could possibly mean anything else, nor are they self-publised books, so we should be good now. And I'm sure there's plenty more. —Soap— 19:09, 18 March 2023 (UTC)

RFV-passed This, that and the other (talk) 23:12, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

@This, that and the other: All quotations use a hyphen. J3133 (talk) 08:58, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

@J3133 good point. Fixed. This, that and the other (talk) 09:08, 14 April 2023 (UTC)