User:Musical Linguist

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Introduction
I'm Irish and live in Ireland. I started editing Wikipedia on 10 April 2005. I'm an administrator here at Wikipedia, so if you need my help, please drop me a line, but please don't be offended if you don't get a quick response, as I am very busy with assignments. Some of my awards can be seen here, but there are others that I haven't had time (yet) to transfer from my talk archives. My favourite quotations can be seen here. The photos I uploaded can be seen here.

Articles I started 


 * Frances Browne
 * Caprylic acid
 * End-stopping
 * Ergative verb
 * Jane Fellowes, Baroness Fellowes
 * Jacques Fesch
 * Grapefruit seed extract
 * Kimberly Hahn
 * Horace Hart
 * Patrick Holford
 * Perfect contrition
 * Host (Holy Communion)
 * Institute of Optimum Nutrition
 * Elisabeth Leseur
 * Anne Line
 * Lady Sarah McCorquodale
 * Saint Nicholas Owen
 * Peter van Pels
 * Swiss roll
 * Margaret Ward
 * Swithun Wells
 * Erica White
 * Abigail Witchalls

Likes and Dislikes


I like:


 * Jane Austen
 * Beethoven
 * Benedict XVI
 * Brahms
 * The Brontë sisters
 * Edmund Campion
 * Cooking (see photos on the right)
 * Enjambment (also spelled enjambement)
 * French
 * -ize spellings for verbs which allow a choice between -ise and -ize
 * John Paul II
 * C.S. Lewis
 * Nicholas Owen (built hiding places for priests; died on the rack)
 * Plainchant
 * Shakespeare
 * Charles Trenet

I dislike:


 * Antibiotics (when not necessary)
 * Bananas
 * Brussels sprouts
 * Cauliflower
 * Charles Dickens
 * Greengrocers' apostrophes
 * Inclusive language, particularly in Bible translations and in the liturgy
 * Lies
 * Nominative pronouns used incorrectly, as in "between you and I"
 * Obscene or Profane language
 * "Of" as an auxiliary verb (as in "I should of done it")
 * Singular they in formal writing (even though my favourite writer used it)
 * Wasps