Talk:tzaddik

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tsaddik

The spelling (deprecated template usage) tzadik is by far the most common. --WikiTiki89 (talk) 10:33, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

Actually, the spelling tzaddik is by far the most common. (Google Ngram Viewer: tzaddik, tzadik, tsaddik, tsadik; Google Ngram Viewer: Tzaddik, Tzadik, Tsaddik, Tsadik) —Ruakh_TALK 12:09, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

Then the number of results here and here must be a glitch. I never understood why Google botches the numbers all the time. --WikiTiki89 (talk) 12:17, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

Google-counts are incredibly unreliable, but the Ngram Viewer uses books up through the year 2000, so it's at least theoretically possible that the proportions on the Web are genuinely different. However, my impression is that the hits at google:"tzadik" are, by and large, not actually using it as an English word, whereas a fair proportion of the hits for "tzaddik" are; this is probably enough to account for the discrepancy. —Ruakh_TALK 14:35, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

I don't know, the discrepancy is quite large (1,780,000 vs 192,000). The only way I think you can account for it is if Google is finding results that don't actually contain "tzadik". But regardless, can we get this moved to (deprecated template usage) tzaddik then? --WikiTiki89 (talk) 14:42, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

• Move to zaddik or tzaddik, keeping "tsaddik" as an alternative form. Here is Google Ngram Viewer for tzaddik,tzadik,tsaddik,tsadik,zaddik. --Dan Polansky (talk) 15:10, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

  I vote tzaddik. --WikiTiki89 18:38, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

 Done. I find it ironic that even after all this discussion, nobody bothered to clean up the entry. I did that, and I also cleaned up the citable alt-forms and their irregular plurals. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 07:41, 21 December 2012 (UTC)