User:Musical Linguist
{| width="100%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="10" style="background-color:CC99FF; border-style:none; border-width:3px; border-color:#b2a4c5;"
|align="left" width="100%" style="border-style:solid; border-width:3; border-color:#80737C; background-color:lightyellow; color:#000000;"|
Introduction
style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; width: 242px; border: #99B3FF solid 1px; clear: right" |
{| cellspacing="0" style="width:238px;background:#DBDBDB" | style="width:45px;height:45px;background:#ADADAD;text-align:center;font-size:11pt" | 40px | style="font-size:8pt;padding:4pt;line-height:1.25em" | This user is an administrator on the English Wikipedia. |
|-
|
cellspacing="0" style="width:238px;background:#E0E8FF"
| style="width:45px;height:45px;background:#99B3FF;text-align:center;font-size:14pt" | fr-3 | style="font-size:8pt;padding:4pt;line-height:1.25em" | Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau avancé de français. {{PAGENAME}} {{PAGENAME}} |
|-
|
cellspacing="0" style="width:238px;background:#D0F8FF"
| style="width:45px;height:45px;background:#77E0E8;text-align:center;font-size:14pt" | nl-2 | style="font-size:8pt;padding:4pt;line-height:1.25em" | Deze gebruiker heeft gemiddelde kennis van het Nederlands. |
|-
|
cellspacing="0" style="width:238px;background:#F0F8FF"
| style="width:45px;height:45px;background:#C0C8FF;text-align:center;font-size:14pt" | de-2 | style="font-size:8pt;padding:4pt;line-height:1.25em" | Die Deutschkenntnisse dieses Benutzers sind fortgeschritten . {{PAGENAME}} {{PAGENAME}} |
|-
|
cellspacing="0" style="width:238px;background:#FFE0E8"
| style="width:45px;height:45px;background:#FFB3B3;text-align:center;font-size:14pt" | ga-1 | style="font-size:8pt;padding:4pt;line-height:1.25em" | Tá bun-Ghaeilge ag an úsáideoir seo.{{PAGENAME}}{{PAGENAME}} |
|-
| {{userbox|wheat|wheat|45px|This user is a professional Musician}}
|-
|
cellspacing="0" style="width: 238px; background: {{{2|{{{info-c|#eeeeee}}}}}};"
| style="width: 45px; height: 45px; background: {{{1|{{{id-c|#dddddd}}}}}}; text-align: center; font-size: {{{5|{{{id-s|14}}}}}}pt; color: {{{id-fc|black}}};" | {{{3|{{{id|['{{IPA|l}}{{IPA|ɪ}}{{IPA|ŋ}}]}}}}}} | style="font-size: {{{info-s|8}}}pt; padding: 4pt; line-height: 1.25em; color: {{{info-fc|black}}};" | {{{4|{{{info|This user is a qualified Linguist}}}}}} |
|-
|
cellspacing="0" style="width: 238px; background: ;"
| style="width: 45px; height: 45px; background: red; text-align: center; font-size: {{{5|{{{id-s|14}}}}}}pt; color: {{{id-fc|white}}};" | UK | style="font-size: {{{info-s|8}}}pt; padding: 4pt; line-height: 1.25em; color: {{{info-fc|black}}};" | This user uses British English. |
|
|-
|}
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
Image:Christmas pudding.JPG, made on 6 December, 2005, and decorated with skimmia from her back garden.]]
Image:Appleturnover.jpg, 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 [http://www.queens-english-society.com/goodeng3.html "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