Talk:Beauchamp–Sharp Tragedy

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pronunciation[edit]

I added the IPA pronunciation of the name Jeroboam O. Beauchamp, since it's not obvious how to pronounce either name, esp. the last name. I'm not sure whether IPA is appropriate here; an alternative would be "English phonetic" spelling like "jair-a-BOE-am OH BEECH-am" -- although this would likely confuse more than help foreigners. Benwing (talk) 06:29, 15 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, I hear this more commonly pronounced "BO-champ", but I don't know that is the proper pronunciation in this case. Also, I don't know anything about IPA, so I can't really change it anyway. Acdixon ^{(talk • contribs • count)} 12:06, 15 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It would be interesting if someone in the know could comment. "BO-champ" would be a more recent spelling pronunciation based partially on the French pronunciation; "BEECH-am" is an earlier spelling pronunciation from a time when most people were ignorant of French pronunciation. I suspect "BEECH-am" was the pronunciation used at the time -- see also the comments under the Beauchamp article. Benwing (talk) 21:56, 18 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The pronunciation in the Kentucky & Southern US for this name is as first mentioned: "BEECH-am". In the movie "My Cousin Vinny", the fictitious county in which the movie is set drew upon this same local patois. — Preceding unsigned comment added by JMBrouillet (talk • contribs) 21:00, 13 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

TFA hit count[edit]

31,000 hits while on the main page. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 17:01, 17 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Disputed tag[edit]

Was this really the first legal execution in Kentucky's history? Was absolutely nobody executed by the state between 1792 and 1826? This sounds ridiculously unlikely, and the source doesn't help things; it's not written in a scholarly manner, it's published by a firm whose website doesn't look encouraging for this purpose, and it cites no sources whatsoever. Nyttend (talk) 15:54, 9 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It does seem unlikely, although I can't think of a counterexample off the top of my head. Acdixon ^{(talk · contribs)} 16:33, 2 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Now a FA in Chinese Wikipedia[edit]

I have translated this article to Chinese Wikipedia here and promoted to FA status, and I want to thank User:Acdixon for his effort to write this amazing article. --Jarodalien (talk) 16:17, 11 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]