Talk:Tom Wolf inaugurated as Pennsylvania Governor

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gubernatorial[edit]

This word again. Wikinews articles are supposed, nay, required to be understandable to an international audience. What. Is. A. Gubernate? BRS (Talk) (Contribs) 19:02, 31 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Do you have a suggestion for how to handle the adjectival form of governor? A wikilink could be provided to Wiktionary, but that would be not very self-contained of us. (The one time we've used the word Glaswegian, I see, we linked locally to Glasgow, at least staying on Wikinews.) --Pi zero (talk) 19:52, 31 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
In this case the word likely drops out without losing meaning. I'd just avoid it altogether, in much the same way a European lawyer might be likely to avoid the noun 'lawsuit' (although in the latter example 'case' suits as an occasional alternative). So in this case "gubernatorial agenda" could, if you wished a governor-y word in there, become "agenda as governor". BRS (Talk) (Contribs) 19:57, 31 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]