Talk:Thomas Phaer

A fact from Thomas Phaer appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 18 July 2006. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that The Boke of Chyldren by Thomas Phaire, published in 1545, was the first book on paediatrics written in the English language?

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 ++Lar: t/c 00:48, 18 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Merge request

I see that the ODNB lists him as Thomas Phaer, so it may be better to merge into that spelling (even though this article is the longer). Ref: Philip Schwyzer, ‘Phaer , Thomas (1510?–1560)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 29 July 2006 --mervyn 10:25, 29 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

That is rather annoying, but, FWIW, the Phaer version is more popular on a Google test too. -- ALoan (Talk) 22:21, 29 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]