Category talk:Portmanteaus
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The plural of "portmanteau", which is used throughout that article, is "portmanteaux"; also, List of portmanteaus redirects to List of portmanteaux. Then why is this category called "portmanteaus"? I expected it to be named Category:portmanteaux. Daniel 13:12, 12 May 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Portmanteaus/Portmanteaux
Hmm. Well, according to Merriam-Webster, the plural can be either portmanteaus or portmanteaux. Perhaps it would just be best then to create a portmanteaux page as a redirect. · Katefan0(scribble) 19:27, May 16, 2005 (UTC)
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- Since the -s is more common usage as a plural than the -x, I have made List of portmanteaus the main article and redirected List of portmanteaux. THis should fix the category parallelism problem. All relevant pages also disambiguated. · Katefan0(scribble) 14:15, May 17, 2005 (UTC)
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- According the the Wikipedia main article, the -x ending is more common (in fact, the only correct) usage. So, I would expect the reverse situation, that is, for List of portmanteaux to be the main article and to be redirected from List of portmanteaus.
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- I agree. Portmanteaus isn't the correct spelling. Do we change the spelling of rendez-vous? Sfacets 07:42, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Someone please add "Truthiness"
I think it's applicable here...
[edit] Wikipedia is an encyclopedia
Articles are not categorized by the etymology of the word, or the type of word. Articles are categorized by what the words represent, as in persons, books, or wars. —Centrx→talk • 00:21, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
Is there a policy that says this? see also and for other examples of categorizations. There is no reason an article shouldn't be categorized grammatically as well. Sfacets 00:05, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
- See Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary and Wikipedia:Categorization. Those categories are categories of lists. That was their intention and what they are mostly used for, with some misguided exceptions. —Centrx→talk • 04:08, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
