User:Gailtb

My name is Gail and I live in London, UK. I started editing Wikipedia in Sept 2005.

One of my careers is as a teacher of ESOL and one of my contributions has been to improve the information on English language learning and teaching, including more of a British perspective. I re-organised the articles on American and British English differences and Language education. I've also written about the Life in the United Kingdom test for naturalisation as a British citizen. I started trying to sort information on Category:Grammar from information which is specifically about Category:English grammar but lost the will.

I want to research and document some of the first language backgrounds of my students: Somali, Tigrinya, Tigre and Blin. I've added an article on Languages of Eritrea.

I studied Linguistics at university. I speak the following languages to a greater or lesser extent: English, French, Flemish (Dutch), German, Hungarian and Mandarin Chinese. I have also studied Latin, Greek and Hebrew. A good friend of mine is from Ghana, a native speaker of Ga, so I am currently learning a little of that. I've added an article on Languages of Ghana.

I have also written about the abolition of slavery in the UK and the British Empire because of an interest in the parallels with the Trade Justice Movement.

My Wiki syntax and style reference

 * Redirect: #REDIRECT title
 * Main article reference, eg
 * See also reference, eg See also: title1, title2
 * Preferred order: See also, References, External links
 * class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
 * Templates and info boxes:
 * Language template: WikiProject Languages/Template
 * Language infobox: Template:Infobox Language
 * Language family infobox: Template:Infobox Language family
 * Phonology template: WikiProject Phonology Template
 * Country template: WikiProject Countries
 * IPA: or
 * IPA in Unicode notice:
 * Categories:
 * Category:Language phonologies
 * Category:Grammars of specific languages
 * Category:English grammar
 * Category:Linguistic morphology
 * Category:Syntax
 * Category:Grammar
 * Category:Linguistics
 * Stubs:
 * Linguistics stub:
 * Vocabulary and usage stub:
 * Writing system stub:
 * Language stubs: see Category:Language stubs
 * Disambiguation page:, eg Mood
 * Non-neutral point of view: or
 * Active major edit:
 * Citation needed:
 * Pronunciation of name:
 * Pronunciation of name with audio:
 * Pronunciation of name with respelling:
 * Pronunciation of name with respelling and audio:
 * Alternative pronunciation: or

My quick links

 * Moving /renaming a page: Help:Renaming (moving) a page
 * Deletion policy: Deletion policy
 * Manual of style: Manual of Style
 * References: Citing sources
 * Naming conventions: Naming conventions
 * Categorisation policy: Categorization
 * Countering systemic bias: WikiProject Countering systemic bias
 * Linguistics project: WikiProject Linguistics
 * Pronunciation style manual: Manual of Style (pronunciation)
 * IPA for English: IPA for English
 * Pronunciation respelling key: Pronunciation respelling key
 * Requests for comment: Requests for comment/Language and linguistics
 * Bots: Bots
 * Common.css: MediaWiki:Common.css