Talk:Edward Iwi

Origin of surname?
"Iwi" is not an English name. The only other use of this form that I know is the Māori word for a tribe, and it is very unlikely to be used by Māori as a surname—I have certainly never seen it as such. Presumably it has cognates in other Polynesian languages, possibly with the meaning bone. Where does this name come from? There is a hint in the article of a Welsh connection. It doesn't look Welsh to me either, but I know far less about Welsh than about Māori. Koro Neil (talk) 22:52, 2 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Hi, User:Koro Neil. I've only just spotted this.
 * Before I wrote the article, I did try to pin down the origin of Iwi's surname. See Reference desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 9 for what I managed to find.  It's not much, but it's a start. Cheers.  --   Jack of Oz   [pleasantries]  22:47, 12 July 2018 (UTC)

Resignation of Esther Iwi
The article mentions the resignation of Esther Iwi from the magistracy. Before I changed it just now, it stated that she was asked to resign. However, this is not supported by the source (the 1951 Hansard excerpt), which quotes Lieut-Colonel Lipton as stating that although she was required to give a temporary undertaking to refrain from sitting as a magistrate (start of para 36), her decision to resign was made at her own request (start of para 38). Additionally there is another contemporaneous source, namely a paragraph printed in the Jewish Chronicle at the time, which states that a Col. M. Browne apologised for and withdrew an imputation that she had been asked to resign, when she had in fact resigned at her own request. I have therefore changed the article to state that she resigned at her own request, and have added the Jewish Chronicle article as an additional source in support of that statement, with a link to a copy of it from the footnote.

(I mention for completeness that I am also aware that a much later source stated that she had been asked to resign, and I suspect that this statement derives in some way from the original imputation made by Col. Browne, but the 1952 Jewish Chronicle excerpt is very clear that any such claim had been withdrawn.)

188.122.38.156 (talk) 12:08, 30 May 2017 (UTC)

Pronunciation?
We've got some data about the etymology above, but what about pronunciation? 89.64.69.55 (talk) 04:55, 22 January 2023 (UTC)