Talk:arrant

Obsolete?

Hey @Sgconlaw, based on the cites you've provided, I would call this word obsolete or archaic instead of dated. "Wiktionary considers a term to be an obsolete form of another (to which it is defined identically) if its usage is overwhelmingly restricted to texts from one hundred years ago or more." [1] (I mean for the forms of arrant that are called 'dated' too, even though the principle I quote is already appropriately applied in one of the definitions on this page.) Am I wrong? Would you change Wake's Island? Thanks for any guidance. --Geographyinitiative (talk) 18:30, 29 March 2022 (UTC)

@Geographyinitiative: from personal experience the word is not obsolete or archaic; I just didn’t have time to research and add more recent quotations. Similarly, as for Wake's Island, it depends on whether you can find quotations from the latter half of the 20th century and the 21st century. — SGconlaw (talk) 18:50, 29 March 2022 (UTC)