Talk:açoro

RFV discussion: June–July 2015
Portuguese for sweet flag. — Ungoliant (falai) 21:53, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

2014, Vamos Beber um Gin?, page 176, has a subsection on "AÇORO OU CALAMO-AROMATICO". turns up a few other hits. - -sche (discuss) 21:39, 19 June 2015 (UTC)
 * All of them, except that one (which is a mention), are scannos. — Ungoliant (falai) 21:42, 19 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Even searching on "açoro", with 434 hits that turn out to be 226, turns up nothing in Portuguese except scannos and verb forms (there were a few references to the Azores that I didn't bother to check, but I assume those were scannos, too). Phonologically, this spelling would make no sense: everything points to having a k sound rather than an s sound, and the non-high back vowels don't make a likely environment for palatalization. Chuck Entz (talk) 00:39, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Exactly. Before I nominated this word, I went through all the Google Books and Google Scholar hits for açoro and açoros (for a second time, because I had done this when I first deleted the entry). The only ones that had Ç were a 19th Portuguese-Flemish dictionary, and the book -sche mentioned. I suspect this is the case of a Wikipedia mistake getting a life of its own; does anyone remember the Amelia Bedelia fiasco? — Ungoliant (falai) 01:20, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
 * I looked at the history of the Portuguese Wikipedia article, and the contributions of the editor who added it: It was part of a long series of page creations in alphabetical order (ignoring the c/ç distinction), and they all had "Nova Enciclopédia Portuguesa, Ed. Publicações Ediclube, 1996" as the sole reference. It looks like they were just going through an encyclopedia and creating entries for anything in the encyclopedia that didn't have an entry already. The rather awkward reference in the initial version to both Calamus aromaticus and Acorus calamus (the first is an invalid botanical name for the same species as the second) makes me think the editor knew nothing about the subject of the article. Chuck Entz (talk) 01:41, 20 June 2015 (UTC)


 * RFV-failed. - -sche (discuss) 21:05, 18 July 2015 (UTC)