Talk:crayon
Related terms: cretaceous ?[edit]
I don't quite see how these are related. Looked at crayon on Wikipedia, other dictionaries but nothing there about anything earlier than about 1500. Facts707 (talk) 01:19, 18 March 2021 (UTC)
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Rfv-sense (rail transport) An informal map of a proposed rail route.
I've seen it used in comments on Alon Levy's writings ([1],[2]) and on Twitter ([3], [4], [5], [6]); it may be a clipping of "crayon map", which we don't have an entry for yet. Seems hard to attest, as it's pretty slangy. See also a one-off coining of "crayonista" ([7]) by a writer playing off the tendency to draw fanciful maps. (See also [8], [9], [10].) grendel|khan 17:44, 16 October 2020 (UTC)
- What are the odds that this is limited to rail transport? DCDuring (talk) 19:39, 16 October 2020 (UTC)
- Indeed, isn't this covered by def. 3 "A crayon drawing."? DCDuring (talk) 19:47, 16 October 2020 (UTC)
- @DCDuring: It's not literally a crayon drawing, though; this, for example, is obviously not a crayon drawing, but it is a crayon in the sense of an informally-drawn rail map. (There may well be non-rail uses, but I haven't found any.) grendel|khan 19:37, 30 October 2020 (UTC)
- @Grendelkhan: it sounds like a revival of the figurative sense "[a] work not carried out in detail, a 'sketch'", marked as obsolete by the OED in an entry last updated in 1893. — SGconlaw (talk) 21:37, 30 October 2020 (UTC)
RFV-failed Kiwima (talk) 04:03, 20 July 2021 (UTC)
alternative pronunciations[edit]
Here's a fun video with discussion of different pronunciations of "crayon" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTAS7x1bdE8