# Talk:Natural History (Pliny)

This is not so much a problem with the article itself, but more so with the subject matter, which I’ve tried to research for sometime and have come up with nothing; In which book/volume of Naturalis Historia is the Artibatirae mentioned? 97.88.217.246 (talk) 05:57, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

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A very strange decision has suddenly been made that this article, which we agree is in British English, should be obliged to use the obsolete spelling "Encyclopedia". There is nothing in policy to oblige us to depart from modern British practice, and indeed from Wikipedia's practice, of using the -e- spelling, which was well established in this article (and FWIW everywhere else). The word (see the OED) is an Early Modern coinage, not an ancient borrowing from Greek, so the -ae- is really just a fancy twiddle. But the key thing is, we Brits don't use it any more. Let's put the article back to where it's always been, -e-. If you want to label that 'Oxford English' I don't really care, I personally use -z- in words like "realize" most of the time; but non-Oxford English uses -e- just like everyone else. Chiswick Chap (talk) 08:21, 26 October 2025 (UTC)