Talk:post mortem
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Who is the arch villain who says "Post mortems bore me?" Rich Farmbrough
- Apparently the quote appears in one of the first two episodes of the Doctor Who story ‘Time and the Rani’, so it’s probably the villainous Time Lord (Time Lady?) ‘The Rani’ . Overlordnat1 (talk) 11:01, 12 August 2022 (UTC)
RFM discussion: August 2017–November 2022
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- Discussion moved from Wiktionary:Requests for verification/English.
Google ngrams for post-mortem,post mortem,postmortem Google ngrams for ante-mortem,ante mortem,antemortem So Google says clearly antemortem and probably postmortem, Merriam-Webster says antemortem and postmortem, Oxford says ante-mortem and post-mortem and we say post mortem and antemortem. We should probably move post mortem to postmortem and make post mortem an alternative spelling entry for postmortem? I don't actually question the existence of any of these, but this seems like the best place to put this. I'm not sure it would be okay if I tried to move these pages myself (assuming I even can) and it might be better to have someone more experienced do that anyway because swapping pages can be confusing. W3ird N3rd (talk) 23:31, 8 August 2017 (UTC)
- If you don't question the existence of any of them, RFV is not the right place. Accordingly, I've moved this discussion from WT:RFVE to WT:RFM. —Granger (talk · contribs) 00:03, 9 August 2017 (UTC)
- Thanks, I've somehow always overlooked this page. I don't think I've ever even been here before. I now notice it's in the bar at the top, but I guess I just always skimmed over it. This page move isn't going to be uncontroversial seeing that the dictionaries don't even agree, so this is the right place. I have a cheap paper dictionary, less than 10 years old that says "post-mortem". But I don't think we should blindly follow the dictionaries here. W3ird N3rd (talk) 01:16, 9 August 2017 (UTC)
- Kept post mortem as the main entry. There's not a lot of frequency difference between them, so this way is as good as any GreyishWorm (talk) 23:09, 2 November 2022 (UTC)