Comment | Like CJ de, I also think there are interesting comments on both sides of this. And of course, Uho, I agree to a certain extent, after all, nobody expects every one of our posts to adhere to the standards of a professional lexicographer.
Of course we don't have to come up with hundreds or thousands of urls to add to the new entry forum, no one would expect that. But on the other hand, just because we're not pros doesn't mean that we should just throw up our hands and give up. We can *try* to uphold best practices as well as we are able, within the constraints of our roles and abilities, and the nature of the forum itself.
Tobias: "During my time in England (1998) people used to call it X. Acceptable or not?"
Not acceptable, because not attested. Human memory is notoriously unreliable.
Go back over your newspapers, magazines, videotapes, personal letters from friends, government tax forms, junk mail, e-mail, CDs, DVDs, advertising circulars, mini-cassettes from your old answering machines, faxes, microfilm, tourist maps, bootleg concert tapes, illegal audio recordings and love letters from 1998 and find examples of 'X'. *Those* you can use.
If you really heard it in 1998 and it wasn't a fluke, you'll find it. If it was a fluke, or so limited regionally or temporally that truly no evidence can be found of it, then even if you do remember correctly is it really important enough to include in Leo now? Who's going to be looking for it if it never occurs? |
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