Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Phonisicle

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The result of the debate was speedy delete. —Korath (Talk) 02:12, Feb 16, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Phonisicle

Not a word - I've worked in the recording industry and have never heard it, and (double checking myself) there are no results on Google. HyperZonk 00:59, Feb 13, 2005 (UTC)

• Here's the gen:
  • A couple of days ago -cle was created. Like many, I suspect, when I saw it my first reaction was that that was blatantly false etymology. For starters: "corpsicle" is a pun on "popsicle", which in turn is derived from "icicle". I was all ready to write a sarcastic note on the talk page, complete with mention of "bicycle", "muscle", "corpuscle", and "pinocle", when I turned up the fact that the "-icle" root of "icicle" in fact does refer to a spike-like shape. So I aborted my note thinking that the {{move to wiktionary}} process would sort out the problem of the other words. Other editors apparently have not been as restrained, or have not done as much research. The addition of "testicle", "rusticle", "phonisicle", and "fungusicle" appear to have been made in order to make the point that the etymology as presented is ... cough ... slightly too broad. It is only "icicle" that has the "-icle" suffix. The remaining words are derived from "icicle" ("popsicle", "rusticle"), are puns on words derived from "icicle" ("creamsicle", "fudgesicle", "corpsicle"), aren't derived from an "-icle" root at all ("testicle"), or are nonce words to make a point ("fungusicle", "phonisicle").
• I vote: Fix, and Wiktionary, -cle before this nonsense gets out of hand (note that the {{move to wiktionary}} notice has unfortunately been removed); and Delete both phonisicle and fungusicle.
• ... and a vandalism watch on the anonymous users who are giving us all of these neologisms (further ones are "phonopolis", "gyropolis", and "paleontopolis"), bogus additions to polis, and Wario the Quario. Uncle G 02:25, 2005 Feb 13 (UTC)
• Delete not notable neologism - zero Google hits. Megan1967 03:05, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

This article is created by a user who persistently creates neologisms with "polis". I tried to talk to him, in vain. I consider this vandalism, hence speedily deleted. Mikkalai 04:25, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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