User:Musical Linguist

Introduction This user is an administrator on the English Wikipedia. fr-3 Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau avancé de français. nl-2 Deze gebruiker heeft gemiddelde kennis van het Nederlands. de-2 Die Deutschkenntnisse dieses Benutzers sind fortgeschritten . ga-1 Tá bun-Ghaeilge ag an úsáideoir seo. This user is a professional Musician ['lɪŋ] This user is a qualified Linguist UK This user uses British English. I'm Irish and live in Ireland. I started editing Wikipedia on 10 April 2005. I'm an administrator here at Wikipedia, so if you need my help, please drop me a line, but please don't be offended if you don't get a quick response, as I am very busy with assignments. Some of my awards can be seen here, but there are others that I haven't had time (yet) to transfer from my talk archives. My favourite quotations can be seen here. The photos I uploaded can be seen here. Articles I started Frances Browne Caprylic acid End-stopping Ergative verb Jane Fellowes, Baroness Fellowes Jacques Fesch Grapefruit seed extract Kimberly Hahn Horace Hart Patrick Holford Perfect contrition Host (Holy Communion) Institute of Optimum Nutrition Elisabeth Leseur Anne Line Lady Sarah McCorquodale Saint Nicholas Owen Peter van Pels Swiss roll Margaret Ward Swithun Wells Erica White Abigail Witchalls Likes and Dislikes Musical Linguist's Christmas pudding, made on 6 December, 2005, and decorated with skimmia from her back garden. Apple Turnover, made by Musical Linguist in December 2005, after instruction at the Cordon Bleu School in Paris in August 2004. I like: Jane Austen Beethoven Benedict XVI Brahms The Brontë sisters Edmund Campion Cooking (see photos on the right) Enjambment (also spelled enjambement) French -ize spellings for verbs which allow a choice between -ise and -ize John Paul II C.S. Lewis Nicholas Owen (built hiding places for priests; died on the rack) Plainchant Shakespeare Charles Trenet I dislike: Antibiotics (when not necessary) Bananas Brussels sprouts Cauliflower Charles Dickens Greengrocers' apostrophes Inclusive language, particularly in Bible translations and in the liturgy Lies Nominative pronouns used incorrectly, as in "between you and I" Obscene or Profane language "Of" as an auxiliary verb (as in "I should of done it") Singular they in formal writing (even though my favourite writer used it) Wasps