Talk:Costly Colours

Costly Colours or costly colours
Research into the naming of this game produces the following information:


 * pagat.com (2005). Costly Colours.
 * David Parlett's website (2021): Costly Colours.
 * David Parlett (1991) in The History of Card Games: Costly Colours.
 * Eddowes (1805) in The Royal Game of Costly Colours: Costly Colours.
 * Webb, Mary (1924) in Precious Bane: Costly Colours.
 * G.S.C. (1894) in in Bye-Gones Relating to Wales and the Border Counties: various renderings including Costly, costly, Costly-colours and costly-colours.
 * Halliwell-Phillipps, James Orchard (1850). A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs and Ancient Customs from the Fourteenth Century: COSTLY-COLOURS as a title.
 * Jackson, Georgina (1879) in Shropshire Word-Book: A Glossary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Etc., Used in the County: COSTLY as title and Costly Colours in the text.
 * Jackson, Georgina (1883) in Shropshire Folk-Lore: A Sheaf of Gleanings in Burne: Costly and Costly Colours.
 * W.H. (1877) in Salopian Shreds and Patches: COSTLY in the title; Costly Colours in the text.
 * Johnson, Charles (1754) in The Compleat Gamester.: COSTLY COLOURS and Costly COLOURS as titles. Costly-Colours in the text.
 * Singer, Samuel Weller (1816) in Researches Into the History of Playing Cards and Printing. COSTLY COLOURS in the title and Costly Colours in the text; costly colours refers only to the card combination, not the game.
 * Chatto, William (1848) in Facts and Speculations on the Origin and History of Playing Cards: Costly Colours.
 * Thornbury, Walter (1856) in Shakespeare's England: Costly Colours.
 * Bohn, Henry G. (1850) in The Hand-Book of Games: Costly Colours.
 * Strutt, Joseph (1810) in The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England: costly colours. Strutt's 1833 edition: Costly Colours.
 * Toldervy, W. (1756) in A History of Two Orphans: Costly Colours.
 * Cotton, Charles (1674) in The Compleat Gamester: Costly-Colours.
 * Randle Holme (1688): Costly Colours.

From its first appearance to now, only one source uses a lower case form; so the overwhelmingly most common rendering is Costly Colours. It would therefore make sense to restore the original name in order to reflect WP:RELIABLE SOURCES. Bermicourt (talk) 19:16, 25 August 2021 (UTC)