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Rare MW headword error #358

Open funderburkjim opened 7 years ago

funderburkjim commented 7 years ago

While working with IAST conversion for Yates, the Yates headword SayanEkAdaSI

f. The 11th of Asháṛha, when Vishnu's sleep commences.

came to attention for Asháṛha spelling.

When looking to MW, found headword spelling SayanEkadaSI

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Since ekAdaSa is 'eleven', and since several dictionaries (:PW,PWG,SHS,SKD,VCP,WIL,YAT) have the Yates spelling, it is clear that this is an instance of MW headword spelling error, and is a print error.

We can congratulate ourselves that such instances of headword errors in MW are now rare. 😃

gasyoun commented 7 years ago

such instances of headword errors in MW are now rare

Yes, it's a pleasure indeed. This case

SayanEkadaSI:MW
SayanEkAdaSI:PW,PWG,SHS,SKD,VCP,WIL,YAT

Which is like 1 authority dictionary versus more than 2 different (including authority) dictionaries, where the only difference is a single letter (not even a letter, but let's say quantity of a sound), which is not a difference in the nasals (including anusvara orthographic convenience) and not doubling of consonants (old SKD and VCP style). Seems (I have suspected it) that the o vs O is not yet over. If @funderburkjim has no easy way to provide me with such lists of suspected words, I'll have to ask @juhnowski to dive with him into it. He would be good in some more technical aspects ( @drdhaval2785 what's your opinion?) of Cologne, but as headwords cleanness is number one aspect for me personally, this is how I see it.

funderburkjim commented 7 years ago

Sounds like a worthy investigation. Probably could be done by analysis of hwnorm1c.txt.

If @juhnowski can help, that seems like a good choice now. At least for my part, I need to focus on the AS to IAST conversion, and on the meta-line project, as well as your simple-sanskrit project. So best not depend on me for this investigation.

gasyoun commented 7 years ago

So best not depend on me for this investigation.

Understood.

juhnowski commented 7 years ago

Good morning! I'm ready to go to work, but I need detailed comments.

drdhaval2785 commented 7 years ago

There is no need to reinvent the wheel. The same work was done in o_vs_O method as we used to call it. https://github.com/sanskrit-lexicon/CORRECTIONS/issues/151

The correction submission based on that pattern is still pending. Time for Marcis to actually find out a correction submitter.

drdhaval2785 commented 3 years ago

I thought o_vs_O things are over, but it turns out that there are still cases around.