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On 27 December 2022, it was proposed that this article be moved from Dyak (clerk) to Diak (clerk). The result of the discussion was moved.

Requested move 27 December 2022

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) — Ceso femmuin mbolgaig mbung, mellohi! (投稿) 02:00, 6 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Dyak (clerk) → Diak (clerk) – WP:COMMONNAME: the most common form in English-language reliable sources[1] (corresponds to the modified Library of Congress romanization system widely used in academic and popular-academic literature). —Michael Z. 22:53, 27 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The proposed spelling has consistently represented 55% to 100% of usage of these two spellings in reliable sources.[2] —Michael Z. 04:30, 28 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

(This proportional graph doesn’t make sense before about 1860, apparently because the overall usage was so low that the smoothed wildly swinging curves are distorted beyond usefulness. Set smoothing to 0 to see the fine-grained data.) —Michael Z. 17:39, 5 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure as your ngram shows that the spelling with y has seen increased usage lately. Alaexis_¿question? 09:16, 28 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, again, after numerous other increases. Yet the proposal has remained the most common spelling for two centuries, and remains the most common by 63% to 37% in 2019, the latest year of data. —Michael Z. 14:51, 28 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Support per well-researched nomination. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 03:24, 29 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Nom convincingly demonstrates that "diak" is, and has consistently been, the most common spelling. ModernDayTrilobite (talk • contribs) 17:01, 5 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.