Talk:acter

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This was deleted per the one-acter RfD. There Wonderfool “suspect[ed] that the term one-acter was coined before acter”, and TheDaveRoss and Binarystep voted to delete and Equinox to keep, respectively, acter. For similar -er terms used in combination, see Category:English terms suffixed with -er (measurement) (e.g., decker, footer, master, valver, volumer). Alternatively, we would have two-acter, three-acter, four-acter, five-acter, six-acter, seven-acter, eight-acter, nine-acter (all sufficiently attested). J3133 (talk) 12:42, 15 November 2023 (UTC)Reply

Support undeletion. I created a few similar entries like worlder without knowledge of that RFD, and yes I agree it makes sense to have single entries qualified as "in combination" over loads of (number)-...er terms which are easily comprehensible sums of parts. —Al-Muqanna المقنع (talk) 13:36, 15 November 2023 (UTC)Reply

Support undeletion. Equinox ◑ 15:42, 15 November 2023 (UTC)Reply

Support. Theknightwho (talk) 15:53, 15 November 2023 (UTC)Reply

Support It was never officially deleted, merely removed. diff. DonnanZ (talk) 00:28, 16 November 2023 (UTC)Reply

Support. Weird that it was deleted in the first place. CitationsFreak (talk) 03:23, 18 November 2023 (UTC)Reply

RFD-restored and changed the etymology to refer to sense 4 of -er as envisaged above. This, that and the other (talk) 00:05, 11 December 2023 (UTC)Reply