Talk:xword puzzle

RFD discussion: March–July 2023

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xword puzzle

SOP x-word + puzzle * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 01:38, 15 March 2023 (UTC)

Keep. Crossword puzzle is a valid entry, even though crossword means the same thing, so the redundancy is no issue. And this is certainly an informal spelling of that phrase, which might not be immediately obvious to non-native speakers. I see no reason to get rid of it. – Guitarmankev1 ^(talk) 02:59, 15 March 2023 (UTC)

My point is that x-word has its own entry as an informal spelling of crossword, so it's not only redundant in the way you described (which the community appears to believe is OK, although I'm not convinced myself), but also in a more straightforward way that has nothing to do with the redundancy of the entry crossword puzzle. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 03:32, 15 March 2023 (UTC)

Keep. I don't think we should forbid alternative spellings of multi-word entries. Binarystep (talk) 09:07, 15 March 2023 (UTC)

Keep. As people have said, if crossword puzzle is valid in principle, then this alternative form is valid in principle too. —Al-Muqanna المقنع (talk) 13:27, 15 March 2023 (UTC)

Mmh, but this would suggest we could create an & entry for every and entry, which is tedious and unnecessary. I note that we only have x-word alone; presumably xword is okay, in which case that would suffice and I wouldn't mind deleting this SoP. Equinox ◑ 00:33, 17 March 2023 (UTC)

• Is xword (without the hyphen) used to mean crossword puzzle? I don't think it makes sense to ignore the hyphen in x-word when considering if it is a component of xword puzzle. — excarnateSojourner (talk · contrib) 23:12, 15 March 2023 (UTC)

  Well, one of the two citations for that sense uses it without the hyphen. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 00:08, 17 March 2023 (UTC)

RFD-kept. This, that and the other (talk) 02:06, 10 July 2023 (UTC)