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Thanks for the pronunciation file! If you'd like to help out with additional words of Irish origin, we could really use the help. I think more than 99% of our sound files are for English, with very few in other languages. --EncycloPetey 04:45, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
I've noticed a bit of inconsistency with specify the name of Old English (I've seen both Anglo-Saxon and Old English) and I'm wondering if there's a particular preference on this. I'd tend to steer toward the latter myself, but word is you're the resident OE editor.
Additionally, I've come across the word "seþeah" in doing some translation work, which appears to be a form of "swa þeah", "nevertheless". Bosworth and Toller says this latter (and by extension the former) is an "adv. conj.". I'm wondering if you have a particular preference as to how to specify part of speech on this. Adverbial Conjunction seems like a good start, but I wanted to double check. (I have difficulty with Be Bold.) Thank you for your input! --Leftmostcat 06:04, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
Please be careful with whitespace in templates, per the above. DAVilla 11:11, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
Hi, the etymology appears on countless baby name sites, and similar sites giving the meanings of Irish names. Here are two:
Thank you for your excellent comment. I agree that the names should be added as English entries, linking to the actual Irish term(s). 24.29.228.33 20:21, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
You are right: Discordian seems a lot more common. There is enough on Google Groups to make it attestable (barely), but perhaps it's not worth the entry. Equinox 08:12, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
Edit. - Amgine/talk 01:59, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
Hmm... not one I've ever heard. Should it be tagged rare? archaic? --EncycloPetey 07:41, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi there. Welcome to sysophood. There is help somewhere. Please add an entry to Wiktionary:Administrators. Cheers. SemperBlotto 22:14, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
Look! Not sure about that L3, and you may wish to meander through xyr other edits. I dinnae sprake Gale! () - Amgine/talk 00:34, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
Hey, the Irish section here is messy (and copied from another dictionary). If you get time, could you please tweak it. Conrad.Irwin 12:38, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
diff - Amgine/talk 01:43, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
I rather think that the style of database described at http://neo4j.org/ is much more suited to the task of modelling linguistic data than the relational approach. If you want to waste a few minutes, it's well worth reading. Conrad.Irwin 15:40, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
I've only just discovered that you deleted the nation of Finland in February. Yes, an anon had vandalized the page with promotional material, but that's no reason to delete the page. Just revert! --EncycloPetey 15:33, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
Soooo, in Scots is there a specificity in the punctuation? d’ or d'? - Amgine/talk 14:38, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi, this guy was not the only one. Hammer of Elephants is also making nonsensical edits. Jcwf 04:57, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
Please restore the page, it is citable. I'll add a quotation if you want L☺g☺maniac chat? 19:00, 24 October 2009 (UTC)
Can you explain the reason for this edit on the entry's talk page after you've read my edit summary and the corresponding entry in the German counterpart of Wiktionary? 76.17.204.112 17:48, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
Hi LMC, I saw the note about the verb conjugation templates. I had found that the (now) old templates (the grey ones) were easier for me to read and parse than the new (blue) ones. The blue ones had some things that struck out at me: 1) the links in red, while standard in Wiktionary, did my head in whilst trying to read the table as a whole; 2) the sizing of the font seems to cause "page stretch", and even with more modern monitors and their sizes, this could still be an issue for some; 3) when imputing verbs not in the Wiktionary, I found the old (grey) format easier to check mistakes (in part because of issues 1 and 2.
I was thinking that perhaps a compromise of the two might work? Including the (required) pronouns would be great, but the "blue" format seems a bit clunky.
I have an idea, just now, on how to reconcile the formats... Give me a day to work on something. Thanks. Reidca 22:11, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
There are entries in every dictionary whose etymology is presented with doubts, so it's just absurd that Wiktionary will only accept those entries which are absolutely sure. Indeed there are several entries here which do flirt with a possibility (tuoda) and it's obvious that messinki, Messing and mässing are all cognates. Due to the fact that there are thousands of words in Finnish that come from Swedish, I am actually certain that Messinki come from a Germanic language. I just left the question mark so that someone in possession of an etymology dictionary research it further and complete it if I missed anything. 201.95.64.72 01:55, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
{{etystub}} instead of just a question mark. </butting in> L☺g☺maniac ☃ 01:59, 8 January 2010 (UTC)Shouldn't this go through the RFD process before being deleted? As far as I know, there never was specific consensus not to have barnstars... --Yair rand 04:10, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
I think this one's for you. — opiaterein — 18:48, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
I only asked a question that I was told to ask you, and you insta-kick me like I asked something uncomfortably intimate. What was that for? Why do you have a problem with a simple question? --129.130.239.10 18:53, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
I have recently expanded the page Wiktionary:About Irish. Please take a look, be bold in changing it, and make comments on the talk page. Thanks! —Angr 14:54, 31 January 2013 (UTC)
I see that it says to use “kk” for a word made with kanji followed by kana, but what do I put if the word is kana followed by kanji, or kana-kanji-kana, or kanji-kana-kanji, or any other forms? I’m guessing I use the same one, right? If that’s the case, they should really change it on the template page. 〜britannic124 (talk) 19:29, 16 August 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for volunteering. Good luck. DCDuring TALK 00:40, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
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