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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Mikething (talk | contribs) at 00:35, 16 January 2010 (war remnants). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

The countermeasure has its own article and half of this one. I removed the split and added merge tags. Hopefully someone knowledgeable can move the information over, add a see reference to the top of this page, and maybe give the other a different title. -Acjelen 06:50, 4 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
The above discussion was about a split of chaff, the husks of grain, from chaff (radar countermeasure), strips of metal used to confuse radar (see this earlier version of the article). --Richard New Forest (talk) 11:37, 14 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed merge of Chaff and Bran

I'm not sure which discussion thread the above were replies to, or how to find it, but it's making me rethink my merge tag. Instead of reverting my merge tag, I'll wait until an actual discussion develops here. I can draw a distinction between the chaff that is threshed and winnowed, and the bran that is milled off before grinding into flour, but I think the distinction is better drawn in a single article about both, and that the two are more likely to remain confused by people who read only one article about either of them. --arkuat (talk) 07:05, 7 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No merge. They are quite different things. Chaff is the scales that protect the grain, while bran is part of the grain. For example, wholemeal flour has no chaff but it does contain the bran. --Richard New Forest (talk) 18:46, 7 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
We need a diagram for each page, which would greatly help to clarify each subject, they are not related except that some cereal crops have both bran and chaff as byproducts of harvesting and processing. Chaff in botany has no context with bran at all, with bran a part of grass seeds and chaff a part of the flower of some plants in Asteraceae, or sunflowers. Hardyplants (talk) 04:55, 8 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
No further discussion, so I've removed merge tag. Richard New Forest (talk) 08:35, 29 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Pronunciation

"to rhyme with half"? Really? Not in my dialect (even ignoring the 'l' in half). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Thirteenangrymen (talk • contribs) 20:06, 29 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not clear what your dialect is, Thirteenangrymen. (Do you really pronounce the "l" in "half"?) The point is that chaff's properly pronounced with a long "a", which in my dialect (RP, more or less) rhymes it with "half", not "gaff". Having said that, many people nowadays know the word only from reading it, so it's very widely pronounced now with a short "a" (and at some point this may become "correct", like "waistcoat" now very rarely being said "weskit"). Perhaps a short "a" is a dialect form too, though I've never heard a farming type use a short "a". Do you rhyme it with "gaff", or how do you say it? No reason why we can't have an alternative pronunciation, if we can find a ref. Richard New Forest (talk) 22:11, 29 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I agree that it might rhyme with half in RP, but not in Northern England where it more commonly rhymes with gaff. Lots of websites mention this pronunciation, and it is not just a recent variant. Dbfirs 23:28, 20 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Being a southerner I really don't know what the traditional pronunciation of chaff would be in Northern English – if it's like "laugh" it would indeed rhyme with "gaff". Pronunciation on web pages is unlikely to be much guide though – we would need a more authoritative source, such as a dialect dictionary. I also don't know about other dialects, such as American, Scottish or Australian.
Notwithstanding all that, perhaps the most pragmatic way of dealing with it here is to just give the two alternatives without further comment: "Chaff (Template:PronEng or /tʃæf/) is the inedible...". Then it doesn't really matter which is "correct". Richard New Forest (talk) 18:18, 21 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, that sounds fair. I'm not an expert on pronunciation, but could we include tʃăf which looks like the way I've always heard it pronounced? If you think this looks wrong in southern England, I'll be happy to omit it. Dbfirs 08:24, 24 January 2009 (UTC) (Sorry, not IPA) Dbfirs 08:28, 24 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Warfare

Why is there a random paragraph about the warfare definition of it? Surely it should just have the disambiguation link and nothing else? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 146.169.52.102 (talk) 16:16, 5 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No, there is a separate article for that: I've deleted the material. Richard New Forest (talk) 18:07, 5 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

There's still a big incongruous title saying "War".

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