Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gawd
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The result of the debate was delete. - Mailer Diablo 03:21, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Gawd[edit]
Wikipedia's not a slang dictionary, and the other items mentioned do not have articles here. Delete along with duplicate GAWD. Gazpacho 07:21, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Delete. I almost listed this myself. RickK 07:23, Mar 28, 2005 (UTC)
- Delete, might place a redirect to God to prevent recreation. Radiant_* 07:57, Mar 28, 2005 (UTC)
- Delete, slang dictionary definition. Megan1967 08:11, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- keep and turn into a disambig for the bottom two THE KING 13:31, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- THE KING (talk · contributions) has made a string of vandalising edits, and virtually nothing else. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 14:22, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Delete. The King's proposal makes some sense, but disambig pages should not be made for non-existent articles, IMO. --Smithfarm
- Delete. A "mispronunciation?" God and gawd come out the same. "Gawd" is one of those print-dialect spellings that are used more to characterize dialect speech as dialect rather than to represent it phonetically. There probably ought to be an article about the phenomenon, once someone figures out a name for it. -- Smerdis of Tlön 17:43, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Comment: If god and gawd come out the same, your accent must have undergone the Cot-caught merger. Kappa 21:15, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- No, it's not a mispronounciation. Rather, I've seen several books, stories and comics using phrases like "oh my gawd" as a more politically correct form of "oh my god". Compare "what the heck". I'm not particularly fond of PC stuff but it does exist. Radiant_* 09:45, Mar 29, 2005 (UTC)
- FWIW, we do have a page on eye dialect, which discusses the phenomenon of variant spellings used to mark "substandard" speech by a character, even when the spellings make no difference. This page wants expansion and citation of literary examples. This may be a good place to merge and redirect the article in question as well. -- Smerdis of Tlön 14:45, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Comment: If god and gawd come out the same, your accent must have undergone the Cot-caught merger. Kappa 21:15, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Delete Pavel Vozenilek 20:45, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)
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