Talk:Ferragut
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Merge of Ferraù with Ferragut
[edit]I merged Ferraù with Ferragut. Both articles treated the same character. I checked the occurrence of the various names using Google (English language) searches for the following terms (shown with number of results):
search terms number of results Ferragut giant 38,900 Ferragut Roland 21,500,000 Ferragus giant 231,000 Ferragus Roland 390,000 Ferracute giant 170,000 Ferracute Roland 3,820 Ferraguto giant 65,100 Ferraguto Orlando 29,300 Ferraguto Roland 14,800 Ferrau giant 10,300 Ferrau Orlando 70,300 Ferrau Roland 53,000 Ferracutus giant 9,400 Ferracutus Roland 9,570 - The results clearly privileged the use of Ferragut over both "Ferragus" and the Italian (Ferrau, Ferraguto) and Latin (Ferracutus, Ferracute) forms (this, despite the fact that Thomas Bulfinch appears to use "Ferragus"). A merge to Ferragut thus made more sense. NYArtsnWords (talk) 17:33, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
Lack of etymology
[edit]Since our project is supposed to be encyclopedic, anyone visiting this article would expect to find an etymology of this name, but there isn't one in the current version of this article. Does it mean "sharpened iron" in Latin? 173.88.246.138 (talk) 00:49, 20 May 2023 (UTC)