User:Daphne Preston-Kendal

I write and edit pages about all sorts, depending on what catches my interest at any particular time. I also have good knowledge of the IPA and phonetics, so I fix bad pronunciations when I see them.

Originally from a village near Clitheroe in the United Kingdom, I now live in Berlin, Germany. I also spent some time in San Francisco, California and in Catania, Sicily.

Articles I’ve created or contributed much to

Started

• Phil Bagwell
• Berlin Bruisers
• John W. Cowan
• Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015
• Daily Office (Anglican)
• Dictionary of Love
• An Essay on Typography
• Paul Ford (technologist)
• Green's Dictionary of Slang
• Historical dictionary
• Intrepid Camera
• Lauri Love
• Holger Peter Sandhofe
• Michael A. Smith (photographer)
• Suburban Souls
• United States v. Swartz

Translated

• Absentive aspect
• Deutsches Fremdwörterbuch
• Emmausgang
• Johannes Hürter
• Johannes Sass
• Peter Wexler
• Wolfgang Wippermann
• Wir sind die Eingeborenen von Trizonesien

Significantly contributed to

• Evensong
• Oxford English Dictionary

Languages

Wikipedia:Babel

enThis user is a native speaker of the English language.

de-3Dieser Benutzer hat sehr gute Deutschkenntnisse.

ang-1Þes brūcere cann forðian mid grundlicgendre mǣðe Englisces.

ipa-4
əThis user has a near-complete understanding of the International Phonetic Alphabet.

Search user languages

See the Babel box to the right.

I also used to be able to speak passable French, and more recently could still read it quite well, but it's now been too long since I learned, with too much German crammed into my head since then.

Travels

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Userboxes

Biographical

31This user is 31 years old.

This user is a citizen of the Federal Republic of Germany.

This user is a British Citizen.

This user lives in Germany.

Education

This user didn’t finish high school.

This user considers herself self-educated.

This user studies or studied at the Humboldt University of Berlin.

Current Studies

This user is an undergraduate student in Historical linguistics.

This user is an undergraduate student minoring in English.

Former Work

progThis user is a programmer.

py-5This user is a professional Python programmer.

rb-5This user is a professional Ruby user.

This user is an advanced Scheme programmer.

Interests

BLAHThis user is interested in linguistics and etymology.

This user is interested in history.

Rel-2This user is at an intermediate level of Religious and/or Spiritual understanding. Depending on how it is expressed, this user might very well be considered a traditionalist.

This user is a tenor.

Wikipedia

inclThis user is an inclusionist.

This user knows that Wikipedia has become too bureaucratic.

IARThis user thinks the best rule on Wikipedia is Ignore All Rules.

Language

a lot alotThis user recognizes that linguistic change is a natural and desirable aspect of human language.

UKThis user uses British English.

OEDThis user uses Oxford spelling.

tough, though, through, thoughtThis user supports English spelling reform.

Personal

This user is a trans* woman.

This user is a submissive.

</label>This user does not choose to label their sexual orientation.