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English Noun Sense 3 - as a failing grade below a D-. Note that we have E+ and E- on RfV above. bd2412 T 03:15, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
- E is also used to mean Excellent. One of the reasons it is less often used as a failing grade. In general I think these things should be just identified as grades; E, E- and E+ are used in financial securities grading. The (approximate) range AA to F with + and - and additional letters are used to grade lots of things. (Kenya AA, which I am drinking right now ;-) Robert Ullmann 08:12, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
- Good point (but showing such would not support the RfV'd sense). bd2412 T 03:28, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
Now cited. —RuakhTALK 19:01, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
- RFVpassed Cynewulf 18:26, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
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Missing definitions, etc. DCDuring TALK 02:50, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
- This is great now, as all of the letters of the alphabet --Volants 13:45, 27 November 2009 (UTC)
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Rfv-sense abbreviation of Hubei and abbreviation of Europe --Geographyinitiative (talk) 18:14, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
- Just now, I did find three cites for the historical state of E, but I don't know how to look for "E" as an English language abbreviation for Hubei and find quotations that could be used on Wiktionary to substantiate this usage in English. How does Wiktionary under CFI show that E is an abbreviation for Europe or Hubei? Thanks. --Geographyinitiative (talk) 19:28, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
- It's a matter of search fu. A trick is to find collocations of the form "Hubei [X]" and then search for "H [X]". You would need to apply judgment to find [X]s that were not likely to yield too many spurious results. There may be other tricks known to people with better search fu than mine. DCDuring (talk) 00:07, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks. I do not have a clue how to do this. I have never done a citation for an abbreviation. To help me learn how to do citations/quotes for abbreviations, would this qualify as a cite for TPE? "Using its Boeing 787-9 ‘Dreamliner’ aircraft, Air Canada offers a direct transpacific service to Taipei Taoyuan International Airport (TPE) in northern Taiwan." [1]
- Wiktionary:Quotations#Abbreviations did not help me; Wiktionary:Criteria_for_inclusion#Given_and_family_names just told me that I need to do the same thing for abbreviations that I would do for any word. I think E is a protologism with reference to Hubei. Idk about E as an abbreviation for Europe. --Geographyinitiative (talk) 02:10, 1 March 2021 (UTC) (modified)
- It's a matter of search fu. A trick is to find collocations of the form "Hubei [X]" and then search for "H [X]". You would need to apply judgment to find [X]s that were not likely to yield too many spurious results. There may be other tricks known to people with better search fu than mine. DCDuring (talk) 00:07, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
- Two other suggestions: try searching for cities in the province + the abbreviation, like "Wuhan, E", or search together with other province abbreviations (e.g. if searching for "NY", search for "NY"+"IL"+"CA"). E as an abbreviation of Europe might be something to discuss whether we want at all, depending on how the citations look if any can be found; on one hand, I've tended to favor inclusion (even of things like "Talk:ylw"), on the other hand, I concede that I wouldn't want to add every name starting with M to "M": "Abbreviation of Michael", "Abbreviation of Marcus", "Abbreviation of Miguel", etc. - -sche (discuss) 04:12, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
RFV-failed Kiwima (talk) 20:16, 4 April 2021 (UTC)
- The 'Europe' and 'Hubei' abbreviation definitions were removed just now. Obviously it's 100% justified to remove them because no examples were given. I tried to do some of the advanced searches above, but I didn't find a darn thing, probably because of incompetency. I hope I am not messing up Wiktionary by being too strict on these.
- @-sche Hey again- you added "E" as an abbreviation for Europe in 2018 and were talking about abbreviation that above. Did you have any specific evidence for that abbreviation? Even if it's not a Wiktionary-grade citation, are there ANY documents that use this abbreviation, even if it's just a list or not a full sentence?
- For the purposes of explanation for the record here, I will just say that in mid-2018 when I added 'E' as an abbreviation for 'Hubei' in English, I was just naively following the pinyin and assuming it would exist out there as an abbreviation for Hubei in English. I have no recollection of actually seeing this usage in real life. I lived in the capital of Hubei for years. --Geographyinitiative (talk) 22:28, 4 April 2021 (UTC)
Can't get the translations thing to work
[edit]I have added translations for the E language, idk how to put them on, I will try my best to do so . - alex the mid person (talk page here) 09:51, 19 August 2023 (UTC)