Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/United Statish English

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The result of the debate was DELETE. jni 15:07, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] United Statish English

• Delete. This is a Wikipedia neologism. Georgia guy 01:49, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Basically a duplicate of American English. —Mar·ka·ci:2005-02-20 01:58 Z
• Delete. He even copied the discussion page, impressive copy paste job.. Preisler 02:04, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • And silly me, after seeing the talk page I read it and responded to one of the comments. D'oh! Moving it to Talk:American English now... — Ливай | ☺ 07:27, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. "United Statish English" gets no Google hits. Since this is a word-for-word copy of American English, no merge or redirect is necessary. Szyslak 02:14, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• delete' Yuckfoo 04:17, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Delete useless fork. Rhobite 04:46, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, duplicate information. — Ливай | ☺ 07:12, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. First, it is mostly a duplicate article. Second, he does not cite a reference for the following statement: "It is commonly called American English, but United Statish English is a more appropriate term to avoid offending the Canadians." That is news to me... Zzyzx11 09:04, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • I think this is alluding to the objection some have over "American" referring solely to the United States and not to the Americas as a whole. But there are no commonly accepted substitutes; United Statish just sounds silly, and other terms like USian and Yankee are questionable in an encyclopedia. Best just to stick with "American", which refers to just the U.S. for the vast majority of speakers of all varieties of English. — Ливай | ☺ 10:04, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Actually, I was only referring to the words "United Statish" which do sound silly. I just happened to quote the entire sentence. I do know that some people do object to have "America" refer solely to the USA. Zzyzx11 20:12, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Delete all useless forks. Jayjg ^(talk) 05:06, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Delete idiocy. Neutrality^talk 07:38, Feb 21, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Useless. ComCat 08:49, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, basically for all the reasons given above. Grstain 16:36, Feb 25, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete as amply testified above. --Angr 20:26, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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