Talk:Urad (bean)
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[edit] உளுந்து
Above is the Tamil for urd bean. I took it from the idli page when I was fixing a wikilink. I know how much work non-Roman text can be and it seemed like such a shame to just delete it that I moved it here instead.JFD 21:55, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Spelling (page move)
I propose to move this page to Urad (bean), with a disambiguation page at Urad. (There is a tiny stub presently at Urad for a village in Poland.) The spelling "urad" seems to be vastly more common than "urd" in English. For example, the Google search:
Results 1 - 10 of about 93,300 for "urad dal".
Results 1 - 10 of about 507 for "urd dal".
Comments? --06:44, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
- There's one of two ways we can do this:
- By Google result as you've done, in which case we should check the other names
- By authoritative source, perhaps a botanical guide or a cookbook by Julie Sahni or Madhur Jaffrey
- BRAmbedkar 18:13, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
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- Madhur Jaffrey's Eastern Vegetarian Cooking has 'urad dal'. I'm getting only 26,500 hits for 'urid dal', against 2,220,000 for Urad dal, 83,200 for Urd dal and 74,500 for Ured dal. Seems pretty clear that this is the best-accepted spelling of urad, and I suppose Urad (bean) makes more sense than what seems like the more obvious choice, Urad dal, in that strictly speaking it's only a dal once it's been split. Anyway - evidently, someone's gone ahead and moved it already, this is just to record that they made the right choice! --Oolong 10:11, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
