Glossary & liar's dice

bibliography.yaml

@@ -10505,6 +10505,7 @@ TheBreretonDiaries:
   author:
   - given: Lewis H.
     family: Brereton
+    url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_H._Brereton
   issued: 1946
   publisher: William Morrow and Company
   publisher-place: New York
@@ -10568,10 +10569,14 @@ SettingSunOfJapan:
   title: The Setting Sun of Japan
   URL: https://archive.org/details/settingsunofjapa0000carl
   author:
-  - given: Carl
+  - &Carl_Randau
+    given: Carl
     family: Randau
-  - given: Leane
+    url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Randau
+  - &Leane_Zugsmith
+    given: Leane
     family: Zugsmith
+    url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leane_Zugsmith
   publisher: Random House
   publisher-place: New York
   issued: 1942
@@ -10581,10 +10586,8 @@ YearOfWrath:
   title: Year of Wrath
   page: 11–12, 51–57
   author:
-  - given: Carl
-    family: Randau
-  - given: Leane
-    family: Zugsmith
+  - *Carl_Randau
+  - *Leane_Zugsmith
   in:
     title: Collier’s
     issued:
@@ -10599,6 +10602,7 @@ ModernHoyle1944:
   author:
   - given: Albert H.
     family: Morehead
+    url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Hodges_Morehead
   publisher: The John C. Winston Company
   publisher-place: Philadelphia, PA
 WorldsBestDiceGames1981:

src/articles/glossary.md

@@ -29,8 +29,9 @@ Also perryall, priol, prioll; from “pair royal”. An old English term for a s
 <dd>
 Payment made to the owner of a gambling establishment, as a fixed fee per game or as a percentage of winnings.
 
-- From the Chinese: ?
-- Thai: <span lang="th">ต๋ง</span> (<span lang="th-Latn">tong</span>)
+- This is possibly from the Chinese <span lang="zh">筒</span> (Hokkien: <span lang="nan-Latn">tông</span>), a round thing, a barrel or can (in which to place the payments). As a verb it means to place or put in.
+- In Javan usage the <span lang="jav-Latn">tong</span> was the glass in which the contributions to the gaming house (called <span lang="jav">ꦕꦸꦕꦸꦏ꧀</span> <span lang="jav-Latn">cucuk</span> or <span lang="jav">ꦕꦸꦏ꧀</span> <span lang="jav-Latn">cuk</span>) are placed.[@JavaanseKaartspelen p. 4]
+- In Thai it is <span lang="th">ต๋ง</span> (<span lang="th-Latn">tong</span>).
 - Also used in Australia amongst Aboriginal groups who play {% gameref kuns %}.[@ANoteOnKuns p. 42]
 </dd>
 

src/games/liars-dice/index.md

@@ -40,8 +40,7 @@ It was also popular with journalists, appearing in 1940 across [Kuching](https:/
 
 In 1942, one writer stated that “anyone who has spent some time in China or the Philippines” would know of the game, while their correspondent described some restrictions on the game: that only one number of dice could be altered, and that following players must use the same number of throws.[@GallopingIvories]
 
-At the end of WW2 the game begins to appear in reference works for the first time, at first in the 1944 @ModernHoyle1944 [p. 235], where it is described as “very popular in the United States Army”. The instructions describe the two-player game with a screen, as in the earliest 1934 reference.
-
+At the end of the Second World War the game began to appear in reference works for the first time, at first in the 1944 @ModernHoyle1944 [p. 235], where it was described as “very popular in the United States Army”. The instructions described the two-player game with a screen, as in the earliest 1934 reference.
 
 1976: @ComeUp [p. 17–26], and its later expansion @WorldsBestDiceGames1981 [p. 25–50]