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Nope, I checked a wide range of dictionaries- all have it spelled "postwar." The only time it appears as "post-war" is in non-standard use. Wikipedia, for one, has post-war popping up along with a huge number of "over-hyphenated" words. FWIW
Bzuk12:28, 20 August 2007 (UTC).reply
The
Oxford English Dictionary, the definitive record of the English language, lists "post-war" only. It is only "over-hyphenation" in your opinion; I would consider "postwar" a clear case of "underhyphenation". There are significant differences between American English and Commonwealth English, and this is one of them;
WP:ENGVAR applies. --
Stemonitis12:49, 20 August 2007 (UTC)reply
You may be right about the Oxford Dictionary definition but the overwhelming number of other dictionaries including the Chambers Reference Dictionary in England have the "postwar" spelling. I did a cursory Google search to find over 1,700,000 entries with the spelling given that way. This is another example of a word gradually changing its conventional spelling through acceptance by the majority of users. FWIW
Bzuk13:16, 20 August 2007 (UTC).reply
In my own writing, I would follow Fowler, and distinguish between the noun and the adjective. But I agree with Stremonitis here: leave it alone, or move to
postbellum - now a redirect to a particular aftermath.
SeptentrionalisPMAnderson17:15, 20 August 2007 (UTC)reply
Move to Wiktionary, or move to "postwar period", so this article's subject can be a noun. The Canadian Oxford (2004) and New Oxford American (electronic, 2005) dictionaries both list "postwar", only, as an adjective. But please, add a reference or remove the speculation about when a postwar period ends. —
MichaelZ. 2007-08-20 22:24 Z
Something does need to change, per Mzajac, because it's pretty hard for an adjective to be an encyclopedic topic. I doubt that the topic can be expanded upon at "post-war period", too, so I wonder if AfD isn't the way to go here.
Dekimasuよ!16:55, 25 August 2007 (UTC)reply
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I hadn't looked at the old discussion of this topic, above, when I quickly suggested a move yesterday. But I agree with Bzuk from 20 August 2007: "I checked a wide range of dictionaries- all have it spelled "postwar." The only time it appears as "post-war" is in non-standard use" […] "You may be right about the Oxford Dictionary definition but the overwhelming number of other dictionaries including the Chambers Reference Dictionary in England have the "postwar" spelling. […] This is another example of a word gradually changing its conventional spelling through acceptance by the majority of users." Anyway, not worth it to me to edit here more … this article should be a soft redirect to Wiktionary; it shouldn't even be a WP stub at all.
— ¾-1001:50, 12 February 2010 (UTC)reply
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Nope, I checked a wide range of dictionaries- all have it spelled "postwar." The only time it appears as "post-war" is in non-standard use. Wikipedia, for one, has post-war popping up along with a huge number of "over-hyphenated" words. FWIW
Bzuk12:28, 20 August 2007 (UTC).reply
The
Oxford English Dictionary, the definitive record of the English language, lists "post-war" only. It is only "over-hyphenation" in your opinion; I would consider "postwar" a clear case of "underhyphenation". There are significant differences between American English and Commonwealth English, and this is one of them;
WP:ENGVAR applies. --
Stemonitis12:49, 20 August 2007 (UTC)reply
You may be right about the Oxford Dictionary definition but the overwhelming number of other dictionaries including the Chambers Reference Dictionary in England have the "postwar" spelling. I did a cursory Google search to find over 1,700,000 entries with the spelling given that way. This is another example of a word gradually changing its conventional spelling through acceptance by the majority of users. FWIW
Bzuk13:16, 20 August 2007 (UTC).reply
In my own writing, I would follow Fowler, and distinguish between the noun and the adjective. But I agree with Stremonitis here: leave it alone, or move to
postbellum - now a redirect to a particular aftermath.
SeptentrionalisPMAnderson17:15, 20 August 2007 (UTC)reply
Move to Wiktionary, or move to "postwar period", so this article's subject can be a noun. The Canadian Oxford (2004) and New Oxford American (electronic, 2005) dictionaries both list "postwar", only, as an adjective. But please, add a reference or remove the speculation about when a postwar period ends. —
MichaelZ. 2007-08-20 22:24 Z
Something does need to change, per Mzajac, because it's pretty hard for an adjective to be an encyclopedic topic. I doubt that the topic can be expanded upon at "post-war period", too, so I wonder if AfD isn't the way to go here.
Dekimasuよ!16:55, 25 August 2007 (UTC)reply
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I hadn't looked at the old discussion of this topic, above, when I quickly suggested a move yesterday. But I agree with Bzuk from 20 August 2007: "I checked a wide range of dictionaries- all have it spelled "postwar." The only time it appears as "post-war" is in non-standard use" […] "You may be right about the Oxford Dictionary definition but the overwhelming number of other dictionaries including the Chambers Reference Dictionary in England have the "postwar" spelling. […] This is another example of a word gradually changing its conventional spelling through acceptance by the majority of users." Anyway, not worth it to me to edit here more … this article should be a soft redirect to Wiktionary; it shouldn't even be a WP stub at all.
— ¾-1001:50, 12 February 2010 (UTC)reply
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