You asked about merging Snow cream with Snow (dessert). Normally you would be required to tag the two articles with merge suggestion tags and open a space for discussion on one of the talk pages (see Talk:Cholent and Talk:Chamin for a recent example). In your case, both articles are very short and the situation is so obvious that I don't think you need to open a discussion and wait for an opinion poll. So you should (a) decide which of the two names you want to use as the main article; (b) edit the text under that name so that it faithfully reflects and combines both merge components; (c) delete (or hide) the existing content of the other article in the pair being merged (without touching its name!) and insert a redirect instruction from it to the full article. In this way you do not delete anything, you do not rename anything, and no problems arise. Good luck. -- Zlerman ( talk) 17:11, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi, please check the etymology of fool that you give in Fruit fool: the French word foule translates as "crowd", and although one of its meanings is "crush", it is "crush" in the sense of "crowd", not in the sense of "pressed" or "pureed". This is the impression I get from looking at half a dozen online French-English dictionaries, so perhaps this "foule" business is just folk etymology and should be dropped from your article (or at least qualified). -- Zlerman ( talk) 15:40, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
I am getting back to this, because I am always troubled by folk etymologies. Here is what I have just received from a professional terminologist in response to my question about a possible connection between fool and fouler:
So more research is apparently needed. I will try to follow up on the full OED, but do you actually have access to Janie Hibler's book? Could you somehow send me the relevant text on p. 306 or give me a working link to that? Regards, -- Zlerman ( talk) 01:02, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
Here is the etymology of "fool" (fruit dessert) from Oxford English Dictionary (2nd ed., 1989): [prob. a use of prec., suggested by the synonym trifle, mentioned in quot. 1598. (So Skeat in Phil. Soc. Trans. 1885-7). Mahn's derivation from F. fouler to crush, is not only baseless, but inconsistent with the early use of the word.]
For your purposes, the rejection of "Mahn's derivation from F. fouler" is what counts. As to the first part of the etymology, it seems to suggest that "fool (fruit dessert)" (which is n2 in the dictionary) derives from "preceding", which is "fool" in the usual sense of "silly" (n1 in the dictionary). I imagine you will find the right formula to reflect this in the article. -- Zlerman ( talk) 09:58, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi there, I have created redirect pages from Jumbles, Jumbolds and Jambles to the Jumbals article you created. -- Deadly∀ssassin 07:25, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
You asked about merging Snow cream with Snow (dessert). Normally you would be required to tag the two articles with merge suggestion tags and open a space for discussion on one of the talk pages (see Talk:Cholent and Talk:Chamin for a recent example). In your case, both articles are very short and the situation is so obvious that I don't think you need to open a discussion and wait for an opinion poll. So you should (a) decide which of the two names you want to use as the main article; (b) edit the text under that name so that it faithfully reflects and combines both merge components; (c) delete (or hide) the existing content of the other article in the pair being merged (without touching its name!) and insert a redirect instruction from it to the full article. In this way you do not delete anything, you do not rename anything, and no problems arise. Good luck. -- Zlerman ( talk) 17:11, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi, please check the etymology of fool that you give in Fruit fool: the French word foule translates as "crowd", and although one of its meanings is "crush", it is "crush" in the sense of "crowd", not in the sense of "pressed" or "pureed". This is the impression I get from looking at half a dozen online French-English dictionaries, so perhaps this "foule" business is just folk etymology and should be dropped from your article (or at least qualified). -- Zlerman ( talk) 15:40, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
I am getting back to this, because I am always troubled by folk etymologies. Here is what I have just received from a professional terminologist in response to my question about a possible connection between fool and fouler:
So more research is apparently needed. I will try to follow up on the full OED, but do you actually have access to Janie Hibler's book? Could you somehow send me the relevant text on p. 306 or give me a working link to that? Regards, -- Zlerman ( talk) 01:02, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
Here is the etymology of "fool" (fruit dessert) from Oxford English Dictionary (2nd ed., 1989): [prob. a use of prec., suggested by the synonym trifle, mentioned in quot. 1598. (So Skeat in Phil. Soc. Trans. 1885-7). Mahn's derivation from F. fouler to crush, is not only baseless, but inconsistent with the early use of the word.]
For your purposes, the rejection of "Mahn's derivation from F. fouler" is what counts. As to the first part of the etymology, it seems to suggest that "fool (fruit dessert)" (which is n2 in the dictionary) derives from "preceding", which is "fool" in the usual sense of "silly" (n1 in the dictionary). I imagine you will find the right formula to reflect this in the article. -- Zlerman ( talk) 09:58, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi there, I have created redirect pages from Jumbles, Jumbolds and Jambles to the Jumbals article you created. -- Deadly∀ssassin 07:25, 19 October 2008 (UTC)