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I'm going to make a few corrections to this article - I think it was written by someone who is not a native English speaker.

Splitting this article is probably a good idea. I think the food related meaning is wastly more common than the scientific one. 62.16.144.149 16:00, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

There seems to be a translit issue here. Should it be Shaslik or Shashlyk? The words are used interchangably in the text 195.159.43.85 10:36, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

My ketchup bottle says "Schaschlik"...wich I think might be the German way of spelling it. - Chsf 14:02, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

The English-language dictionaries I consulted spell this "shashlik" or even "shaslik" (see Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary). However, in the most common contemporary transliteration schemes, including Wikipedia:Romanization of Russian the vowel "ы" of Russian would be translated as Latin "y" not "i". As "shashlik" is not a very common term in English (most speakers would refer to this as a "shish kebab" or just "kebab"), I suspect "shashlyk" is more likely to be used by those familiar with the Russian language by rules of transliteration (although I state this likelihood without documentable confirmation), hence I left "shashlyk" as a variant. jchristopher 03:51, 23 April 2007 (UTC)