21:1321:13, 3 January 2023diffhist−56
Ghe with upturn
→History: Until someone can specify a variety that does this, I'm removing it; all English speakers I've ever heard pronounce that as the unvoiced one.Tags: Mobile editMobile web edit
02:4002:40, 16 January 2022diffhist−62
Vitiligo
The oldest direct record of Shinto—or ANYTHING ELSE in Japan—was written in 712 AD, 19 centuries after the date given.
20:2420:24, 18 August 2021diffhist−47
Nail (fastener)
Either this sentence is contradicted by the one IMMEDIATELY after it, or there needs to be an explanation for how the first ones were wrought iron and then people used bronze ones.
20:5420:54, 24 April 2021diffhist0
Bronze mirror
Japan is even further east, and there are bronze mirrors described in the article on the Yayoi Culture.Tags: Mobile editMobile web edit
23:4523:45, 7 April 2021diffhist−5
Yumi
"Nigiri" is also the stem in "o-nigiri", and the linked Wiktionary definition does not specifically say anything about bows.
4 April 2021
05:4105:41, 4 April 2021diffhist−296
Waidan
A different transcription system is not an error. Wade-Giles uses T for Pinyin D and T' for Pinyin D.
12:3312:33, 19 September 2020diffhist−22
Louisiana French
→Healing practices: "Medicine man" refers to a person who deals with the numinous, "medicine" in the spiritual sense, for a Native American culture. It only incidentally refers to folk-healers.Tags: Mobile editMobile web edit
14:3514:35, 24 August 2020diffhist−221
Turko-Mongol sabre
→Influence on Later Swords: Somehow I doubt the Magyars had any need to learn Eurasian steppe warfare from the Turks… This article reads like the Turkish version of Pavel "it was a Russian inwention" Chekhov wrote it. Steppe cultures of origins other than Turkic or Mongol also used these swords; we don't know who used them first.Tags: Mobile editMobile web edit
21:1321:13, 3 January 2023diffhist−56
Ghe with upturn
→History: Until someone can specify a variety that does this, I'm removing it; all English speakers I've ever heard pronounce that as the unvoiced one.Tags: Mobile editMobile web edit
02:4002:40, 16 January 2022diffhist−62
Vitiligo
The oldest direct record of Shinto—or ANYTHING ELSE in Japan—was written in 712 AD, 19 centuries after the date given.
20:2420:24, 18 August 2021diffhist−47
Nail (fastener)
Either this sentence is contradicted by the one IMMEDIATELY after it, or there needs to be an explanation for how the first ones were wrought iron and then people used bronze ones.
20:5420:54, 24 April 2021diffhist0
Bronze mirror
Japan is even further east, and there are bronze mirrors described in the article on the Yayoi Culture.Tags: Mobile editMobile web edit
23:4523:45, 7 April 2021diffhist−5
Yumi
"Nigiri" is also the stem in "o-nigiri", and the linked Wiktionary definition does not specifically say anything about bows.
4 April 2021
05:4105:41, 4 April 2021diffhist−296
Waidan
A different transcription system is not an error. Wade-Giles uses T for Pinyin D and T' for Pinyin D.
12:3312:33, 19 September 2020diffhist−22
Louisiana French
→Healing practices: "Medicine man" refers to a person who deals with the numinous, "medicine" in the spiritual sense, for a Native American culture. It only incidentally refers to folk-healers.Tags: Mobile editMobile web edit
14:3514:35, 24 August 2020diffhist−221
Turko-Mongol sabre
→Influence on Later Swords: Somehow I doubt the Magyars had any need to learn Eurasian steppe warfare from the Turks… This article reads like the Turkish version of Pavel "it was a Russian inwention" Chekhov wrote it. Steppe cultures of origins other than Turkic or Mongol also used these swords; we don't know who used them first.Tags: Mobile editMobile web edit