User contributions for Garik
A user with 8,321 edits. Account created on 28 April 2006.
26 April 2024
- 20:5020:50, 26 April 2024 diff hist +62 Endonym and exonym →Typical development of exonyms: It didn't refer to generic non-Germanic speakers
15 April 2024
- 01:3201:32, 15 April 2024 diff hist 0 Story of Sinuhe Fixed typo: Senworset > Senwosret Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
27 December 2023
- 04:2904:29, 27 December 2023 diff hist −2 Povey →Notable people with this surname include: If William Povey can be English, Meic Povey can be Welsh current Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
24 December 2023
- 15:0515:05, 24 December 2023 diff hist 0 Rachub Fixed minor issue in pronunciation. Since this is in Gwynedd it makes sense to go with northern vowels. Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
18 October 2023
- 19:1919:19, 18 October 2023 diff hist −25 Ken Weatherwax →Biography: We can probably take for granted that their "lifelong" friendship ended when one of them died—or, given the Addams family connection—maybe not?
16 October 2023
- 18:2418:24, 16 October 2023 diff hist +11 Llŷn Peninsula →Etymology: I don't think it's ever spelt Lleyn in modern Welsh
26 September 2023
- 13:4113:41, 26 September 2023 diff hist 0 m Shoshanna Lonstein Gruss →Early life: removed potential ambiguity (i.e., the potential reading that she missed constant press coverage)
4 July 2023
- 03:0103:01, 4 July 2023 diff hist −54 Whistler's Mother →Exhibitions in America: Removed irrelevant and unsupported sentence
- 03:0003:00, 4 July 2023 diff hist +270 Whistler's Mother Currently in Philadelphia
10 June 2023
- 21:3521:35, 10 June 2023 diff hist 0 Percy Wood This is clearly supposed to be the common noun not the proper noun! Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
9 June 2023
- 15:0715:07, 9 June 2023 diff hist +2 Denmark →Etymology: Dan is almost certainly not a prefix. Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
7 March 2023
- 16:5816:58, 7 March 2023 diff hist −1 Glasgow →Etymology: c.f. -> cf.
30 November 2022
- 17:2817:28, 30 November 2022 diff hist −6 Cockney (dialect) Cockney Rhyming Slang is not the same thing as the Cockney dialect! current Tag: Redirect target changed
14 November 2022
- 17:0717:07, 14 November 2022 diff hist +1 m 2015–2016 New Zealand flag referendums →Criticism: highly criticised -> heavily criticised
- 17:0517:05, 14 November 2022 diff hist −1 m 2015–2016 New Zealand flag referendums →Legal issues: nor -> or (the sentence is already negative)
10 November 2022
- 14:1814:18, 10 November 2022 diff hist −60 Lloegyr →Etymology: There is no basis to the "lost" etymology
3 November 2022
- 18:3718:37, 3 November 2022 diff hist −15 1282 →By place: These would be better headed "Wales" than England, given that most of the events referred to happened in Wales not England. But Wales and England are in Europe, so it's odd to have a separate heading anyway
5 September 2022
- 14:1214:12, 5 September 2022 diff hist −4 Eirwen Fixed IPA. I don't think there's any real justification for [uː] in place of [w], and the first vowel is pretty reliably diphthongal (though its quality varies a fair bit). current
28 August 2022
- 05:1405:14, 28 August 2022 diff hist +473 Caleb McLaughlin Undid revision 1107103066 by 2600:1700:7B81:3A0:44D9:C3B:A518:69E4 (talk) Tags: Undo Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
18 August 2022
- 16:3716:37, 18 August 2022 diff hist −2 Puebloans Punctuation tidy up, removal of unnecessary italics etc
- 16:3416:34, 18 August 2022 diff hist −1 m Puebloans Removed oddly located comma
11 August 2022
- 16:0916:09, 11 August 2022 diff hist +550 Cyhyraeth There's a lot of uncertainty about the etymology. Best to put it in its own section
- 15:5915:59, 11 August 2022 diff hist −68 Cyhyraeth That's the definition given for the whole noun in GPC. It's not the meaning of -aeth, which is just a nominal suffix like English -ness or -ity
8 July 2022
- 12:0712:07, 8 July 2022 diff hist −5 Armenian language →Classification and origins: The article linked to is about phonological development in acquisition, which is not what was intended here
15 February 2022
- 03:0203:02, 15 February 2022 diff hist −28 Constitutional status of Cornwall →Prior to the Norman Conquest: wealas was not a term for generic foreigners Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
1 February 2022
- 02:1402:14, 1 February 2022 diff hist −9 Rhydderch Lots of names are old; no need to single this one out as especially ancient current
23 November 2021
- 15:5915:59, 23 November 2021 diff hist +2 Gareth (given name) removed inappropriate semicolon and added "on"
25 March 2021
- 19:0019:00, 25 March 2021 diff hist −5 Gareth (given name) Wording implied that we weren't sure if it had become popular in Wales
16 March 2021
- 14:2914:29, 16 March 2021 diff hist −16 Raven Girl →Reception: fixed quote
3 March 2021
- 18:5818:58, 3 March 2021 diff hist +25 Talk:Golf Halt railway station →Translation
- 18:5218:52, 3 March 2021 diff hist +748 Talk:Golf Halt railway station →Translation
- 18:4618:46, 3 March 2021 diff hist +260 Talk:Golf Halt railway station →Translation
- 18:4318:43, 3 March 2021 diff hist 0 Golf Halt railway station →Overview: No need for capital letter here
- 18:4318:43, 3 March 2021 diff hist −3 Golf Halt railway station →Overview: Slight correction to the translation
4 January 2021
- 20:4820:48, 4 January 2021 diff hist +19 Fudge →Flavors and similar candies: Worth making explicit that chocolate is kind of a default in the US
14 October 2020
- 00:1600:16, 14 October 2020 diff hist +29 Reboot (fiction) Saying that it recreates it "from the start" might be taken to imply that it always starts from the same starting point, which isn't the case. Tags: Reverted Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
30 September 2020
- 14:0314:03, 30 September 2020 diff hist +83 Celtic toponymy →England (excluding Cornwall): It didn't mean "foreigner" or "stranger
4 August 2020
- 11:4711:47, 4 August 2020 diff hist +31 Davies Article didn't mention rest of UK Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
13 July 2020
- 15:0115:01, 13 July 2020 diff hist +34 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Not phonetic in the linguistic sense!
25 June 2020
- 17:1317:13, 25 June 2020 diff hist 0 Traditional Welsh costume →History: Missing full stop Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- 17:1217:12, 25 June 2020 diff hist +4 Traditional Welsh costume →History: were -> had been Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
10 June 2020
- 19:1319:13, 10 June 2020 diff hist −2 m Aled Rural District Conway -> Conwy
18 April 2020
- 00:2700:27, 18 April 2020 diff hist −5 Phil McGraw however -> but Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
3 April 2020
- 14:3314:33, 3 April 2020 diff hist 0 Welsh English Saesneg Gymraeg -> Saesneg Gymreig (Cymraeg refers to the Welsh language; Cymreig refers to Wales and its people, regardless of language)
20 March 2020
- 17:3317:33, 20 March 2020 diff hist +394 Lullaby →British: Added pais dinogad
28 February 2020
- 14:4314:43, 28 February 2020 diff hist +38 Welsh phonology →Stress and pitch: Clarify stress position of examples Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
26 February 2020
- 19:3419:34, 26 February 2020 diff hist −54 Mozart and scatology Tried to make intro clearer
- 13:5913:59, 26 February 2020 diff hist +2 The Secret (Byrne book) →Critical response: vow by -> swear by
5 February 2020
- 19:3119:31, 5 February 2020 diff hist +187 Elephant and Castle →"La Infanta de Castilla" name theory: Let's be clearer about this, in line with the citation
- 19:2719:27, 5 February 2020 diff hist −758 Elephant and Castle →"La Infanta de Castilla" name theory: This section is not well written. I improved it a little. The final paragraph didn't really contribute anything beyond circumstantial evidence
