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A user with 388 edits. Account created on 6 April 2006.
12 August 2024
- 10:1710:17, 12 August 2024 diff hist +3 detent →Verb: Make that make much more sense; this has nothing to do with invention/manufacture. current
19 July 2024
- 16:0116:01, 19 July 2024 diff hist +25 casus →Descendants: +1
- 15:5115:51, 19 July 2024 diff hist +85 c.q. →Dutch: Someone had badly confused the two meanings and which example pertained to what
23 March 2024
- 20:3220:32, 23 March 2024 diff hist +48 medial →Adjective: Clarify: the linguistics use is not confined to phonology/phonetics (e.g. both the letters "s" are medial in "asset", which was often written/printed "aſſet" or "aſset" in the 18th C. specifically because of the medial position).
15 February 2024
- 09:3009:30, 15 February 2024 diff hist +16 inquit actually provide the definition, not just relation to infinitive form current
17 November 2023
- 00:3100:31, 17 November 2023 diff hist −66 eigen- →Prefix: rm. redundant examples already found by {{prefixsee|en}}; I'm not sure why it's not finding the other blue links in here like eigendynamic, eigenexcitation, eigenket, eigensection; my guess would be some missing prefix-related template at those articles.
- 00:2700:27, 17 November 2023 diff hist −18 eigen- seems to belong up here not down there
1 June 2023
- 15:0915:09, 1 June 2023 diff hist −9 m doughty →Etymology: don't use circular definitions
31 May 2023
- 02:0102:01, 31 May 2023 diff hist +497 N Talk:polyviscose →Incorrect definition?: new section current Tag: New topic
8 April 2021
- 17:3217:32, 8 April 2021 diff hist −20 m fillip →Noun: No one has used "smart" in that sense for about a century. Sheesh. The dictionary is meant to elucidate, not confuse.
15 February 2021
- 21:1421:14, 15 February 2021 diff hist −66 lionize →Verb: or just remove it as nonsense
12 February 2021
- 21:2721:27, 12 February 2021 diff hist −8 goliardia →Further reading: link to en.wp article from en.wikt
- 21:2621:26, 12 February 2021 diff hist +153 goliardia →Noun: main actual meaning in modern Italian
29 November 2020
- 22:1722:17, 29 November 2020 diff hist −7 reverend link cleanup
- 22:1722:17, 29 November 2020 diff hist 0 reverend →Adjective: not the same definition (and the second is dubious anyway)
16 October 2020
- 10:1210:12, 16 October 2020 diff hist +1 MRW →Phrase: Space ("Foo bar ..." indicates an unfinished expression; "Foo bar..." indicates that "bar..." is a truncated word).
- 10:1010:10, 16 October 2020 diff hist +333 MFW →Phrase: Second (and now more common) sense; more usage notes
11 October 2020
- 06:3106:31, 11 October 2020 diff hist −6 gallant →Adjective: rm. incorrect capitalization
- 06:2706:27, 11 October 2020 diff hist +19 gala →Noun: Make that make some sense in English.
22 April 2020
- 11:4111:41, 22 April 2020 diff hist +6 m paal that didn't quite work, either
19 March 2020
- 20:4120:41, 19 March 2020 diff hist −168 m calve →Verb: ditto
- 20:4020:40, 19 March 2020 diff hist −86 calve →Verb: rm. redundant example
21 February 2020
- 01:4001:40, 21 February 2020 diff hist +411 Wiktionary:Tea room/2020/February →clown-car primary: r
13 February 2020
- 02:1402:14, 13 February 2020 diff hist +2,398 N Talk:aliquant →Figural usage (in English): new topic current
3 February 2020
- 11:3011:30, 3 February 2020 diff hist +10 japonisme →English: template fix
- 11:3011:30, 3 February 2020 diff hist +496 japonisme USUALLY capitalized as Japonisme in English (also, quite rarely, Japonism), but sometimes done "proper French" style as lower-case japonisme. Tags: etyl new-L2
- 11:2811:28, 3 February 2020 diff hist +515 N Japonisme Creating page; dup. of Japonism, since this Japonisme which is actually the norm in English-language sources, though incorrectly capitalized under French-language capitalization rules (which would have japonisme). Tag: etyl
- 11:2511:25, 3 February 2020 diff hist +44 Japonism Much, much more often Japonisme than Japonism in English.
- 11:2211:22, 3 February 2020 diff hist −83 chinoiserie →English: No particular reason to single out those three languages as "needed".
- 11:2111:21, 3 February 2020 diff hist +736 N Chinoiserie Creating page; dup. of chinoiserie, but for capitalized version, which is actually the norm in English-language sources, though incorrect under French-language capitalization rules. Tag: WT:NORM
- 11:1811:18, 3 February 2020 diff hist +52 chinoiserie →English: This is actually usually capitalized in English.
12 June 2019
- 16:4716:47, 12 June 2019 diff hist +1 m waifu Comma required here ("anime" and "manga" are not modifiers of "game" in this sentence).
- 16:4516:45, 12 June 2019 diff hist +1 m husbando Comma required here ("anime" and "manga" are not modifiers of "game" in this sentence).
8 November 2018
- 16:5416:54, 8 November 2018 diff hist +259 Wiktionary:Grease pit/2018/November →Fatal exception of type "UnexpectedValueException": r
- 01:0801:08, 8 November 2018 diff hist +731 Wiktionary:Grease pit/2018/November →Fatal exception of type "UnexpectedValueException": ???
- 00:3400:34, 8 November 2018 diff hist +29 N pēdō redir (does not qualify under the "inflected forms, plurals, misspellings, translations or abbreviation expansions" redirect ban; it's an alternative glyph case) current Tags: New redirect redirect
- 00:3300:33, 8 November 2018 diff hist −2 pedo move senseid marker higher up to provide the full context for it
- 00:2600:26, 8 November 2018 diff hist +6 pēdere more specific link current Tag: Redirect target changed
- 00:2500:25, 8 November 2018 diff hist +20 N pēdere redir (does not qualify under the "inflected forms, plurals, misspellings, translations or abbreviation expansions" redirect ban; it's an alternative glyph case) Tags: New redirect redirect
10 March 2018
- 10:1510:15, 10 March 2018 diff hist −63 waifu Um, no. This is a real-world dictionary, not a "what I'm fantasizing in game-world" dictionary.
13 January 2018
- 17:5917:59, 13 January 2018 diff hist +211 User:SMcCandlish update current
8 January 2018
- 06:4306:43, 8 January 2018 diff hist +72 till →Preposition: "It's twenty till two" is another "until" case; distinguish the obsolete (physical) "to"; put examples in same order as sub-definitions.
- 06:3006:30, 8 January 2018 diff hist 0 till →Preposition: put non-dialectal meaning first
11 December 2017
- 07:4807:48, 11 December 2017 diff hist +792 N blecherous creating page
- 07:0607:06, 11 December 2017 diff hist +117 bletcherous Alternative form (the original, but no longer common); template update
- 07:0207:02, 11 December 2017 diff hist −47 bletcherous self-rv to fix edit summary
- 07:0007:00, 11 December 2017 diff hist −8 m Template:quote-web/documentation ce
- 06:3906:39, 11 December 2017 diff hist +47 bletcherous "alternative" (actual original and most common) form
3 October 2017
- 20:0920:09, 3 October 2017 diff hist −3 till →Synonyms: 'til isn't "non-standard" but very well attested in professional writing
- 20:0820:08, 3 October 2017 diff hist 0 until →Synonyms: The 'til spelling is well attested, and the till spelling is even less standard.