Talk:au reservoir

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RFV discussion: May 2020

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One independent use in BGC, with a ton of French false positives. — surjection??20:59, 12 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

It's widely used in the Mapp and Lucia series of books, and [1] [2] are two books unrelated to Mapp and Lucia that use it twice each. —Mahāgaja · talk 05:34, 13 May 2020 (UTC)Reply
Two more from Wikisource: s:The adventures of Mr. Verdant Green, an Oxford freshman/chapter 10 and s:Ulysses (1922)/Chapter 14. —Mahāgaja · talk 05:37, 13 May 2020 (UTC)Reply
I speedied it because this is an IP who frequently, repeatedly adds large batches of rubbishy (i.e. often non-existent) words with poor definitions. It's not worth RFVing all that junk IMO. Equinox 01:18, 14 May 2020 (UTC)Reply
I used to hear it in high school. DCDuring (talk) 02:49, 14 May 2020 (UTC)Reply
Citable in Usenet/Google Groups, including: "Same to you, and just remember not to menschen the war. Au reservoir." usage from alt.usage.english (2000). DCDuring (talk) 02:58, 14 May 2020 (UTC)Reply
Added some cites. I also found it in 1854 but I'm not sure that was intentional. In the 1855 quote it was clearly on purpose, reservoir is italicized. There's more: [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8]. Alexis Jazz (talk) 22:16, 23 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

RFV-passed Kiwima (talk) 09:22, 31 May 2020 (UTC)Reply