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3 Replies ・ Started by blutorange at 2015-05-13 20:36:41 UTC ・ Last reply by Kimtaro Admin at 2015-05-18 17:48:40 UTC
This is a discussion about 五十嵐

Two different readings

The kana given for this entry are いかなし, but the second (wikipedia) definition says "Igarashi", -- is this intended?

The names itself appears in enamdict as well: http://jisho.org/search/%23names%20%E3%81%84%E3%81%8C%E3%82%89%E3%81%97

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SenseiHanzo at 2015-05-14 03:02:04 UTC

http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/kmr_tds/43541171.html

It seems that there is a place that's called いかなし with those kanji (in Ehime Prefecture), but いがらし appears to be a much more common reading. Also, Wikipedia lists two other readings: いからし and いそあらし. According to that entry, いがらし is when it's a family name, where as いからし is when it's a place name (except for the rare case of いかなし). The only example for いそあらし is a sumo wrestler's stage name.
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BA%94%E5%8D%81%E5%B5%90

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SenseiHanzo at 2015-05-14 03:05:59 UTC

I guess my point is that this entry isn't incorrect, since there actually is a place called いかなし (though there's no entry for いからし). However, it's pointing to the wrong Wikipedia article, which is why it has a different reading there. There probably shouldn't be an article linked to this one at all. Though, there isn't even actually a link to the article on this word's entry like there is with other words... Kind of useless.

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Kimtaro Admin at 2015-05-18 17:48:40 UTC

Think it's a case of incorrectly paired entries. I'll mark for future fix.

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