Talk:Bilberry
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There's a perfectly nice picture of some bilberries on Commons at Blaeberry.jpeg but for some reason I cna't get it to load, I expect I'm making some format error - can anyone fix it? Thanks. seglea 20:03, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
- Done. MPF 21:58, 14 August 2005 (UTCT
The second study mentioned shows there is no effect on vision which is contradictory to the statement about positive effects.
- Indeed it does, and the others have no bearing on night vision. Also, it appears the RAF story is unknown in the RAF. Appropriate edits made. --Rallette 10:52, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Winberry
I redirected winberry here as it was a candidate for deletion due to lack of sources. Here (abridged) is what the OED says
- Whimberry ... wynneberie, win(ne)berry, wind-berry, whinberry, w(h)imberry. The bilberry or whortleberry..... 1610 Shuttleworths' Acc. (Chetham Soc.) 189 Given to a wenche which brought winberries from Burneley woode ,..., 1906 Westm. Gaz. 24 Aug. 10/1 Bilberry..is merely the midland name for the bleaberry of the North, the whortleberry of the West, and the whinberry of the Welsh Border. OED SECOND EDITION 1989
certainly around here in the High Peak they are called w(h)inberry.Billlion 19:14, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
- I was hunting for wimberry or wimberries, and eventually ended up here. Man vyi 12:24, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] WP:ATM
- Laboratory studies have shown that bilberry consumption can inhibit or reverse eye disorders such as macular degeneration[3], but this therapeutic use remains clinically unproven.
Erm, what? If it's been tested in a laboratory setting, does that not mean it has been proven? Honestly, it seems like someone went along and did one of those however.... Octane [improve me?] 19.05.08 0019 (UTC)
