severed vs cut in two editor made the change from severed to cut in two cut in two is actually more accurate and his explanation was also correct severed isn't quite correct i realize that there was a book on short published under the title severed it's in my library in fact but if you look closely at the definition of sever short's body wasn't really severed it was cut in two definition of sever from webster's to put or keep apart divide especially to remove as a part by or as if by cutting to put or keep apart is accurate when referring to people who have severed relationships divide especially to remove as a part doesn't fit what happened to short's body because her body wasn't divided into parts but actually bisected with all of this in mind i think that if severed is insisted on and kept the words in two need to be added i will be making that addition after i am finished with this talk page entry more discussion here would be a good thing thanks