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O'Fflahertie versus O'Flahertie

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The sources cited in the notes section of this article, which say that "O'Fflahertie" is the correct spelling, seem to be in the minority when compared to how the vast majority of sources spell the middle name.

I cannot find a free version of the Wildean article cited ("How Did Oscar Wilde Spell His Name?" by Donald Mead, Jan 2020), so I cannot examine the evidence provided by that article myself. I also cannot find a copy of his birth certificate to compare the spelling. Additionally, the Soethby listing ('Confessions of Tastes, Habits and Convictions', authorial manuscript, 1877) even spells the name as O'Flahertie in its item description, although the handwriting within the manuscript does seem to have the O'Fflahertie spelling.

I think this requires further research before the article makes any definitive statements on the definite spelling of his name. Yttrbium (talk) 16:28, 11 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Yttrbium: We did research and discuss this in February & March this year. Old thread is at Talk:Oscar_Wilde/Archive_7#Spelling_of_one_of_Wilde's_middle_names. DuncanHill (talk) 19:59, 11 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

two edits suggested

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Two edits suggested, to be implemented by someone with editing rights on this page:

1. where it says that £60 in 1895 is "equal to £8,800 today", this latter figure should be updated to "£10,000" (October 2024)

2. Re the sentence that says "Another teenager who said they had engaged in sex acts with Wilde, Walter Grainger, who was 16 at the time, said Wilde had threatened him with "very serious trouble" if he told anyone about their relationship": the fifth word should be corrected from 'they' to 'he'. (It makes no sense to use an anonymous "they" pronoun here, when male pronouns are correctly used twice later in the same sentence to refer to the same person.) 82.7.176.216 (talk) 16:48, 5 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]