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We hope you enjoy editing Wiktionary and being a Wiktionarian. --Ivan Štambuk 20:03, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
You haven't given a part of speech to the second definition. If it like the Welsh ap then I suppose it should be ===Prefix=== SemperBlotto 16:44, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi, just letting you know that {{context}} has been deprecated. The preferred replacement is {{lb}}. ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk) 12:11, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
I hope this was a one-time fluke (notice what happened with the translation tables). I would appreciate it if you would quickly check back over your edits to make sure. Chuck Entz (talk) 14:02, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
We have capernoity, capernoited, presumably related. Equinox ◑ 16:50, 9 May 2019 (UTC)