Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Reduction (linguistics)

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was keep Sjakkalle (Check!)  09:52, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Reduction (linguistics)
Delete- This article is saying that sez is a reduction of (says) Excuse me, but how is sez a reduction of says? That's how says is pronounced even in isolation. sez is only a more phonetic spelling spelling than says. sez is how the word says is pronounced. It's not a reduction 205.188.116.132 03:16, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Could use some expansion, but it is a legit linguistic concept. -- BD2412 talk 14:31, 2005 Jun 15 (UTC)
 * Keep. Article is well-written, informative, and encyclopaedic. To the original anon IP: It all depends on how you pronounce "says". jglc | t | c 15:10, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep: it is a perfectly ligitimate but someone does need to do a little more with the article, maybe even consider it as a stub for expansion. By the way, this is the second legit article from Category:Phonology that I've seen put on VfD by a user from IP number 205.188.166.xxx. The other is Votes for deletion/H-cluster reductions. Bambaiah 05:12, Jun 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. It's true that sez is not a reduction of says, but that's hardly a ground for deletion of the whole article. --Angr/undefined 06:27, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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