Talk:Limpa

Interwiki links
If this is a traditional Scandinavian bread, then it should have interwiki links to Nordic language Wikipedias. However I am unable to find any. sv:Limpa is a disambiguation page, with the closest (and only really appropriate) entry being sv:brödlimpa, but that is a redirect to sv:bröd, as "brödlimpa" just means "loaf of bread" in Swedish. There is a Finnish article fi:limppu, and the Finnish and Swedish cuisines are very similar to each other but not exactly identical, but it looks like they are different kinds of bread after all. J I P &#124; Talk 00:26, 10 October 2020 (UTC)
 * This loaf seems to be called sv:vörtlimpa in Swedish. I think it's mentioned somewhere in the article. Spudlace (talk) 06:50, 10 October 2020 (UTC)
 * You mean sv:vörtbröd, not sv:vörtlimpa (which doesn't exist). I tried to link this article to sv:vörtbröd on Wikidata but got an error that they are separate entities on Wikidata and I don't know how to merge them. Anyway this article is already linked to ru:Лимпа on the Russian Wikipedia, and although I don't understand Russian, I can read that "Лимпа" reads "Limpa" in Cyrillic. J I P  &#124; Talk 15:26, 11 October 2020 (UTC)

Limpa is to generic
"Limpa" refers to all type of bread loafs. If some said that wanted to buy a "limpa" no one in Sweden would think they meant vörtbröd. 83.250.42.217 (talk) 07:06, 10 July 2022 (UTC)

Limpa is a general term for loaf, not specifically of rye bread
The article is wrong. "Limpa" is the Swedish word for "loaf", it is not a term used to describe a specific type of rye bread. If anything its more common to use it for other types of bread. 147.28.73.169 (talk) 13:06, 15 January 2023 (UTC)

Vörtbröd is the correct name
This type of bread is NOT called "limpa", thats a name for any type of bread. 95.199.17.79 (talk) 08:04, 2 February 2023 (UTC)


 * This is correct. Vörtbröd is the Christmas specific type of rye bread. Nothing else. It's never ever called limpa. Nimoria (talk) 16:08, 25 December 2023 (UTC)

Requested move 13 September 2023

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: not moved. Consensus that, regardless of the terminology used in Swedish, the English-language WP:COMMONNAME is "limpa". (closed by non-admin page mover) ModernDayTrilobite (talk • contribs) 14:09, 6 October 2023 (UTC)

Limpa → Vörtbröd – As per discussion. Limpa means loaf. This bread is called vörtbröd. The top image is however not depicting a vörtbröd but some other kind of bread. Ariam (talk) 11:59, 13 September 2023 (UTC) — Relisting. Lightoil (talk) 14:28, 20 September 2023 (UTC) — Relisting.  Edward-Woodrow  •  talk  20:35, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Oppose per WP:NCUE unless there is other evidence showing that the proposed term is the WP:COMMONNAME in English. The image can be corrected if necessary, but the sources for this article suggest that "limpa" is the term used in English regardless of whether the term is correct in Swedish. Note that before a few edits ago, the beginning of the article explained this correctly, stating "Limpa (Swedish for loaf) is a sweet Scandinavian rye bread, associated with Swedish cuisine" but not arguing that this word is used to refer to this kind of bread in Swedish. The first cite on that sentence also backs up this usage in English. Dekimasu よ! 13:40, 13 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Support. I've never encountered the term limpa in English (or seen this type of bread sold in the UK where I spent a couple of years), but the Swedish word basically means loaf and is used for this shape and size for any type of bread. (See Here is SAOB for etymology.) Shortening vörtlimpa (which today would be a more informal designation than vörtbröd) to limpa therefore simply isn't correct, since it no longer indicates the type of bread, only the shape. But it could be used in everyday talk, such as "do you want another slice of the limpa?", when you don't need to specify the type of bread. It seems obvious that the newspaper sources in the article haven't understood this distinction. The lead could include vörtlimpa as a synonym to indicate this. Tomas e (talk) 08:47, 16 September 2023 (UTC)
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 * Oppose: sourcing appears to indicate a common English usage of limpa to describe this type of bread. While the specific type of bread has a far more accurate name in its native Swedish, the American English word for this seems to now be the generic limpa. The limited academic sourcing appears to support this. ~ Pbritti (talk) 14:47, 20 September 2023 (UTC)

Limpa is not vörtbröd.
Limpa means loaf in Swedish and is a description of shape rather than a specific type of bread. There is e.g. köttfärslimpa which is the name for meat loaf. Another example is a limpa cigaretter which is a large box of cigarette packages. A brödlimpa can be any type of bread shaped as a loaf. 195.41.8.204 (talk) 10:17, 9 February 2024 (UTC)