User:Walafrid

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Not much to say: but here are my contributions to this eminent encyclopaedia. I'm a student, currently residing in the beautiful city of Durham, in North-East England. The splurge of user-boxes below might tell you a bit more.

You might want to look up ‘me’ in history: Walafrid Strabo.


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Background
UK This user uses British English.
This user comes from
the United Kingdom.
This user is not British, but shares a common heritage and respects a parity of esteem between the many people of "these islands".
Durham University coat of arms This user studies or studied at Durham University.
This user is a Christian. float
This user runs Mac OS X.
dvrk This user contributes using a Dvorak keyboard.
flute-3 This user is an advanced flautist.
This user is a university student.
HIS
This user's favourite subject is History.
Languages
en-
gb-N		 This user is a native speaker of British English.
src-n This user has never spoken sarcastically in his/her life. Ever.
Grek-2
Ω		 This user has an intermediate understanding of the Greek alphabet.
la-2 Hic utilisator media latinitate contribuere potest.
... This user would like to know oodles more languages.
Preferences
4 This user thinks BBC Radio 4 is worth the licence fee alone.
This user is a fan of Blackadder.
E4 This user watches E4.
NOW This user loves The Now Show and hates The Git Wizard.
Scrubs This user's inner monologue is tired of being called a girl's name.
Ted This user has visited Craggy Island.
IT Hello, I.T. , have you tried turning it off and on again? Is it definitely plugged in?
KUA This user is a friend of the Buckets (pronounced Bouquet).
BBC This user watches BBC News.
HP This user is a big fan of the Houses of Parliament.
This user believes that you should never put milk in with the tea bag.
Grammar
Never realised I was so picky…
A, B and C This user prefers not to use the serial comma.
“…”? This user thinks “British punctuation is best for quotation marks”. Do you?
’s Thi's user know's that not every word that end's with s need's an apostrophe and will remove misused apostrophe's from Wikipedia with extreme prejudice.
whom This user insists upon using whom wherever it is called for, and fixes the errors of whomever he sees.
... in. Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which this user will not put.
Subj This user likes that the Subjunctive mood be used. Were this user you, he would use it.
Latin Plurals: "Data is are..." This user uses "data", "media", "memoranda", "criteria", and "agenda" as the plurals of "datum", "medium", "memorandum", "criterion", and "agendum".