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Is it anachronistic for the article to discuss depths in metres and temperatures in C (as first choices) when 1963 England would have referred to feet and F? -- Dweller 11:39, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
I'm not very happy with the title "1963 United Kingdom cold wave", since "cold wave" is very much an American term and one that is rarely if ever used in the UK. JH ( talk page) 17:43, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
I don't see this article site any sources, things like the sea at Hearne Bay froze, and BBC News expressed fears that the straits of dover would freeze, who on the BBC News, I could phone the BBC and say that, and they could play it on the News, but it wouldn't make any more likely. The tempareture here the last couple of weeks has been down to -11 each night and hasn't gone above -6 in the day, and the river Clyde which is right by us hasn't froze. I would like the source so I could go and look this up. Considering Wikipedia's paranoia about sources (like on the apple 2's page it has that the apple 2 logo was made up of two square bracktes back to back IE ][, then qoutes a source for this to prove that the authors not lying, but directly above there is actually a photo of the logo). Yakacm ( talk) 11:06, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
The Article states that the blizzard affected the south west of England and Wales, it actually affected the whole south of England, including the South East and London. Source http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/content/articles/2008/09/04/bigfreeze63_feature.shtml 86.178.229.183 ( talk) 03:46, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
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The new-as-of-today IP editor 86.162.37.29 has reverted an edit I made to the article on the basis that my parenthetical explanation of a British English term was inappropriate in an article written in British English. In short, the editor implies that, being written in British English, the article is not intended to be understood by non-British speakers of English. I disagree. Is there any editorial consensus we can build on this matter? I am sure the MOS has something to say on this, but I'm too lazy to look right now.
I have seen American English terms parenthetically explained in several articles written in American English. While I did not need the explanation, I appreciated its presence for the benefit of non-American English speakers. When I saw the term "fixtures" in the article, I had no clue whatsoever as to the meaning of the term, and had to look it up. I doubt very many Americans are familiar with this term; therefore, my edit could save them time and effort. WP editors are invited to weigh in.
As a postscript, I'll add that I believe the section header "Sports fixtures" is best off being replaced by a term like "Sports schedules", and if the term "fixtures" appears in the body of the section, I recommend it be given a parenthetical synonym at its first appearance.-- Quisqualis ( talk) 05:29, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
Is it right to say there was a thaw in March? "Thaw", I think, means that the snow and ice melted, but I believe that they just disappeared, or sublimated. This in itself was remarkable. At time my office overlooked a large Army parade ground in London, and you could watch the frozen snow which had covered it for weeks vanishing as vapour into the atmosphere, not leaving moisture. Seadowns ( talk) 13:34, 8 February 2018 (UTC)
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Is it anachronistic for the article to discuss depths in metres and temperatures in C (as first choices) when 1963 England would have referred to feet and F? -- Dweller 11:39, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
I'm not very happy with the title "1963 United Kingdom cold wave", since "cold wave" is very much an American term and one that is rarely if ever used in the UK. JH ( talk page) 17:43, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
I don't see this article site any sources, things like the sea at Hearne Bay froze, and BBC News expressed fears that the straits of dover would freeze, who on the BBC News, I could phone the BBC and say that, and they could play it on the News, but it wouldn't make any more likely. The tempareture here the last couple of weeks has been down to -11 each night and hasn't gone above -6 in the day, and the river Clyde which is right by us hasn't froze. I would like the source so I could go and look this up. Considering Wikipedia's paranoia about sources (like on the apple 2's page it has that the apple 2 logo was made up of two square bracktes back to back IE ][, then qoutes a source for this to prove that the authors not lying, but directly above there is actually a photo of the logo). Yakacm ( talk) 11:06, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
The Article states that the blizzard affected the south west of England and Wales, it actually affected the whole south of England, including the South East and London. Source http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/content/articles/2008/09/04/bigfreeze63_feature.shtml 86.178.229.183 ( talk) 03:46, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
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The new-as-of-today IP editor 86.162.37.29 has reverted an edit I made to the article on the basis that my parenthetical explanation of a British English term was inappropriate in an article written in British English. In short, the editor implies that, being written in British English, the article is not intended to be understood by non-British speakers of English. I disagree. Is there any editorial consensus we can build on this matter? I am sure the MOS has something to say on this, but I'm too lazy to look right now.
I have seen American English terms parenthetically explained in several articles written in American English. While I did not need the explanation, I appreciated its presence for the benefit of non-American English speakers. When I saw the term "fixtures" in the article, I had no clue whatsoever as to the meaning of the term, and had to look it up. I doubt very many Americans are familiar with this term; therefore, my edit could save them time and effort. WP editors are invited to weigh in.
As a postscript, I'll add that I believe the section header "Sports fixtures" is best off being replaced by a term like "Sports schedules", and if the term "fixtures" appears in the body of the section, I recommend it be given a parenthetical synonym at its first appearance.-- Quisqualis ( talk) 05:29, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
Is it right to say there was a thaw in March? "Thaw", I think, means that the snow and ice melted, but I believe that they just disappeared, or sublimated. This in itself was remarkable. At time my office overlooked a large Army parade ground in London, and you could watch the frozen snow which had covered it for weeks vanishing as vapour into the atmosphere, not leaving moisture. Seadowns ( talk) 13:34, 8 February 2018 (UTC)