You've contributed in the past to this list. If you're at all interested, I believe the page needs considerable expansion, and I've made a list of suggestions on its talk page. I'd appreciate your input. Thanks. Chick Bowen 23:53, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
Regarding your comment over on the anonymous IP's talk page (which I'm guessing was you, hence it coming here):
"Oft" is indeed a word. So are "doughty," "ere," "forsooth," and "rede," but they belong in Sir Walter Scott, not an article about fish. Wikipedia is too full of writers who think that sprinkling their prose with archaic expressions makes it sound sophisticated, when in fact it creates unnecessary ambiguity and clashes with the project's generally encyclopedic tone. Your impeccable good manners in contradicting my edit are an entirely different problem, of course.
And Wikipedia is too full of writers who think that "encyclopedic tone" implies "must pound prose into monochrome, lest someone, somewhere think that Wikipedia was written by people, rather than generated by robots from the Ministry of Garden Varieties".
"Oft" is not "archaic", and neither is the form "many a [singular]" as opposed to "many [plural]" (which you saw fit to change, too). It is neither unacceptable nor a required form; I see no compelling reason to either correct it, or correct to it. I object to a certain breed of Wikipedian that thinks that not reading a certain word in his Superman comics makes it "archaic", for almost exactly the same reason that I object to those that go around Wikipedia "correcting" British spelling to the American kind.
With all that said, I'm sorry about the bad language. That was uncalled for, so I offer an unreserved apology (you could put that down to not sleeping properly for several days, but whatever). Love, Lewis Collard! ( baby i'm bad news) 09:30, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
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