Issue 364: Millen(n)ium Mistake.

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Disposition changed to »Needs help« (previously »New«)

In principle, »millennium«, with 2 »n«, is the correct spelling of the word – it comes from »annus« (the Latin for »year«).

Somebody should look at the original publication and/or ask Marilyn what the dance is actually called, merge the two entries, and possibly add the other name as a (spelling) alias.

All dictionaries I checked, give Millennium with two n. Doing a google search shows that the 1n writing also exist (16mio hits), but by far out-numbered by 36mio double-n Millennia. Pointing into the direction the Millennium would be correct.

Does somebody have the “Seaside Celebration Bournemouth 40th” book to check for the correct writing? So that we know which one is the typo.

Cheers, Heiko

Subject changed to »Millen(n)ium Mistake.« (previously »Mistake.«)
Assigned changed to »EricFerguson« (previously »None«)

A SCDDB dance search for “Millen” shows duplicate entries for the dances: ◾The Millen(n)ial Strathspey ◾A Millen(n)ium Welcome These need to be merged.

Also all SCDDB entries with “Millenium” need to be given an alias with “nn”.

Assigned changed to »castle_ghost« (previously »EricFerguson«)

I have cross-checked with a copy of the book. The writing is definitely with nn.

I have now merged the two entries accordingly.

Furthermore, I have updated the publication by adding the missing tunes, a few naming typos, adding dates and merged the tune “South Street” which was twice in the database.

Assigned changed to »EricFerguson« (previously »castle_ghost«)

I leave the Millen(n)ium alias project to Eric as he has done some research on it already.

But I have merged “The Millen(n)ial Strathspey” entries to “The Millennial Strathspey”. And corrected a typo in the title of the “20 New Dances by John Drewry 1999-2000” collection.

FYI, Marilyn Watson’s answer :

“The title is spelt Millennium but the title of the printed music is spelt Millenium.”

Cf. http://rtelle.free.fr/scd/27-11-2013-11-55-45.jpg

Dear Roland,

I have indeed seen that, as I had access to the original in the meantime.

The title of the dance is “…nn…” which is also according to the dictionaries. The title of the tunes actually “The Carbery Strathspey” and “The Second Carbery Reel”. Only the headline of the page says “…n…”, but as this is not above the dance description itself, nor the title of any of the tunes, I consider that a ‘local’ typo which we should be save to ignore.

I hope you agree, Heiko

Yes I agree Heiko!

Millennium needs to “nn” as Anselm said … of course!

Thank you for merging the two entries!

Assigned changed to »anselm« (previously »EricFerguson«)
Disposition changed to »New« (previously »Needs help«)

I have added spelling aliases using “Millennium” for all dances in the database using the wrong spelling “Millenium”. Now searches using the correct spelling will not fail.

I could not do this for the recording “Millenium March/Call of the Pipes”, as there is no way of adding a spelling alias to that name. We need that, as we cannot expect people who search to have to try out all spelling errors.

That needs to be fixed, and only Anselm can do that.

Eric

Priority changed to »Urgent« (previously »Normal«)

Just a reminder that this is still not fixed. But if adding an “alias” option for this or other items is a big job, then please do it when it suits you; I don’t want you to feel I’m putting on pressure. Eric

I presume that by “this is still not fixed” you mean “we still don’t have spelling aliases, or for that matter any aliases at all, for recordings”. To which I say, don’t hold your breath waiting for it – this is a database structure change and as such goes onto a queue that I won’t be able to deal with anytime soon (too many other urgent jobs).

Disposition changed to »Ignored« (previously »New«)

OK Anselm. Point well taken. We realise we’ll need to wait some time for these Alias facilities. As we know it’s firmly on your joblist, I am resetting this issue to “ignored” to get it off the listings that require our attention. Eric