Talk:Edward Lhuyd

Birthplace
Birthplace was Loppington, Shropshire, according to The Welsh Biography online (and to Wikipedia Loppington page).

Spelling
Edward and his contemporaries definitely spelled his name Lhuyd. I have a copy of Pryce's 1790 Archæologia Cornu-Britannica here and that spelling is all through it. Evertype 17:12, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Edward and his contemporaries definitely spelled his name Luid / Luid. far more often and were inconsistent as to anything else.


 * The article is almost certainly at the wrong place now. The guy himself and Oxford even now more often spell his name Lhwyd. Lhuyd seems to have been used for just one book, although cursory scholars like the editor above and the academics checking Wikipedia below may have made Lhuyd more common in recent work. — Llywelyn II   22:46, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

"Further reading"
is generally useless and all the moreso when it's an uncurated laundry list like the article formerly had:



Kindly only restore these to the article (a) once they're being used to source statements within the article or (b) once there's some further context beyond "this is what Google Scholar spits out when this name is searched... only in Wiki formatting". Otherwise it's worse than useless: it creates the mistaken appearance of a well-sourced article when none of these are actually being used by the editors. — Llywelyn II   13:17, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

Sources for further expansion
In addition to those listed above, there's more at the provided OUMHS and Rice U sources. — Llywelyn II   00:20, 16 December 2023 (UTC)

Missing biblio item
Strangely, I can't seem to find a digitized copy of this via the usual suspects (Google Books, Internet Archive, Hathi Trust). A surviving original is in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. A modern reprint was put out by the academic publisher D. S. Brewer for the Folklore Society (attributed to James Kirkwood; edited by John Lorne Campbell; 1975; ISBN 9780859910125). The actual credits for this work are subject to some conflicting claims (by Llwyd himself), as summarized here: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/be9708fb-d7af-432a-9c17-db2c2ddc0d45

2001:5A8:4260:3100:B8D6:AD46:D3C2:8E57 (talk) 07:30, 12 June 2024 (UTC)