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Author Topic: Is the word 'triskeles' the plural of triskele?  (Read 7402 times)

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Offline Paleologo

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Re: Is the word 'triskeles' the plural of triskele?
« Reply #25 on: January 25, 2010, 09:08:40 am »
a triskeles and a triquetra are two different symbols, the former meaning "three legs" (roughly), the latter meaning "three corners" (see image below).

Yes, quite correct. I'd rather write that the second term is sometimes used improperly as a synonim. Never accept wiki information without proof-reading ;)
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Re: Is the word 'triskeles' the plural of triskele?
« Reply #26 on: January 25, 2010, 10:57:56 am »
Never accept wiki information without proof-reading ;)

SO true!
I find errors in Wikipedia articles on such a regular basis that it has become a source of amusement for me to look for them.
What is NOT amusing is how dependent people are becoming on this convenient but notoriously unreliable source of information, particularly younger people, many of whom actually believe that looking something up on there is doing research.
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