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The actual word both singular and plural is 'Hustings'. 'Husting' as it is listed here is no longer in use. This page needs to be moved to "Hustings"
I have tried to tighten up this section a little, but don't have sufficient information to justify changes that I suspect are necessary. Specifically, the first sentence formerly read,
I have removed some superfluous verbiage to make it,
But I suspect it should actually read something like this:
I haven't made that change because I don't know the history, and it's not 100% certain that's what the original author meant. If indeed that's what the section should tell us, it should also give us more information about how and why the term evolved as it did, and, of course, it should make reference to some published authorities as well. J. D. Crutchfield | Talk 19:40, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
The mention of 'stump' as an American equal may not be correct (I'm Australian - check with a Yank). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.226.148.177 ( talk) 04:58, 28 July 2014 (UTC)
The preceding comment says to ask a yank about "stump" - I am one, and it looks correct.
There's a note that citations are needed for the information about current usage in schools in the British Isles. The following links contain references to such current usage, but would linking to them as a citation be adequate? Or is that original research?
[1]
[2]
Otherwise, there's this book which likely has such information in it, but I do not have a copy of it:
[3] (ISBN-13: 9780199550128)
Kslattery (
talk)
03:48, 1 March 2022 (UTC)
References
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The actual word both singular and plural is 'Hustings'. 'Husting' as it is listed here is no longer in use. This page needs to be moved to "Hustings"
I have tried to tighten up this section a little, but don't have sufficient information to justify changes that I suspect are necessary. Specifically, the first sentence formerly read,
I have removed some superfluous verbiage to make it,
But I suspect it should actually read something like this:
I haven't made that change because I don't know the history, and it's not 100% certain that's what the original author meant. If indeed that's what the section should tell us, it should also give us more information about how and why the term evolved as it did, and, of course, it should make reference to some published authorities as well. J. D. Crutchfield | Talk 19:40, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
The mention of 'stump' as an American equal may not be correct (I'm Australian - check with a Yank). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.226.148.177 ( talk) 04:58, 28 July 2014 (UTC)
The preceding comment says to ask a yank about "stump" - I am one, and it looks correct.
There's a note that citations are needed for the information about current usage in schools in the British Isles. The following links contain references to such current usage, but would linking to them as a citation be adequate? Or is that original research?
[1]
[2]
Otherwise, there's this book which likely has such information in it, but I do not have a copy of it:
[3] (ISBN-13: 9780199550128)
Kslattery (
talk)
03:48, 1 March 2022 (UTC)
References