Talk:Bracelet

move description of 1980s fad

I don't think a description of a single fad in the 1980s (in what country or region? Among what people?) is reasonable for the introductory paragraph, so I moved it. Chester320 00:44, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Boycott's purchase of a tennis bracelet

There should not be any mention of it because it's completely trivial information with no lasting importance to the subject of tennis bracelets. The section ought not to turn into a general list of people who've bought them, because this is an encyclopedia, not an extension of the BBC test match commentary. Bencherlite^Talk 13:39, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

Tennis bracelet meaning?

OK, we've all seen tennis bracelets advertised on TV, but why are they called tennis bracelets? This article has a picture of one, and "Tennis bracelet" redirects here, but no definition. MeekMark (talk) 01:54, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

Lead section - definition

I think that the lead section should state that a bracelet is worn around "the" wrist as opposed to "a" wrist. It's pretty standard to use the definite article when referring to a body part, even if we have more than one of said body part. Yes, bracelets can be, and are, worn on either wrist depending on personal preference, but I don't think that negates using the definite article. Plus, this article has used the definite article in the lead section for many years, and the anklet article (closest comparison) has also for many years. Merriam-Webster also uses the definite article in its definition of "bracelet". My instinct here is to maintain the status quo. I'm not looking to start an edit war here, so I'll just leave the definition be for now, but it just seems "wrong" to me as is. Input people? --Seven of Nine (talk) 01:27, 15 July 2014 (UTC)

Dictionaries are weird. Webster's Canadian says a bracelet is worn on the arm, and makes no mention of the wrist! The Concise Oxford manages to avoid using either article. I suspect there may be some variation in national usages. I was raised in England, and although I've lived for most of my life in Canada, and have been influenced by Canadian usages, my British upbringing still affects me. Maybe that's why I find "a wrist" more natural in this context than "the wrist". Anyway... Okay. Let's have a vote. What do people think? DOwenWilliams (talk) 02:07, 15 July 2014 (UTC)

Oh! All right. Most of the dictionaries I've looked at are wrong, so I suppose Wikipedia might as well be wrong too. I've made the change. I've also added a sentence about the slang use of "bracelets" to mean "handcuffs", since several dictionaries include it.

Two dictionaries don't use the article "the" in the manner we're discussing. One is "The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary" (with no apostrophe), which is an immense list of words with minimal definitions. It calls a bracelet "a wrist ornament". The "Concise Oxford Dictionary" calls it an "Ornamental band, chain, etc., for wrist or arm; (sl) handcuff." I can imagine the editors in Oxford, England (where I spent four years as a student), having the same kind of argument as we have been having, and eventually deciding simply to omit the article altogether. Maybe we should do the same.

Most dictionaries talk about the ornamental aspect of bracelets, without mentioning the utilitarian ones. There's no such thing as a perfect dictionary.

DOwenWilliams (talk) 15:19, 15 July 2014 (UTC)

unwanted advertising?

My wife and I noticed one of the photos looks like an advertisement for Pandora brand bracelets. I'm no wikipedia expert, but this seems out of place. Suggest we simply remove the word 'Pandora' from the caption 'Popular Pandora beads silver bracelet (2008).'Joeplex (talk) 18:54, 4 December 2014 (UTC)

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Standardise spelling of jewelry

On this page, the following spellings are used:

• jewellery
• jewelry
• jeweller

Since the rest of the page appears to use American spellings, would it be appropriate to change "jeweller" to "jeweler"? The use of "jewellery" links to the page with the same spelling, so should it be left as is regardless of localised English?