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User:Widsith

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This user's time zone isUTC+1 and observes Daylight Saving Time.

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en	This user is anative speaker ofEnglish.

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Cet utilisateur dispose de connaissancesproches de la langue maternelle enfrançais.

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Este usuario tiene un conocimientoavanzado delespañol.

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Dieser Benutzer beherrschtDeutsch auffortgeschrittenem Niveau.

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This uiser can contreebute wi aemiddlin level oScots.

ang-2

Þes brucere understentÆnglisc geþeode gemetlice.

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Ten użytkownik posługuje sięjęzykiem polskim na poziomiepodstawowym.

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هذا المستخدم لديه معرفةأساسية بالعربية.

gsw-1

Dää Benutzer chae bitzeli Alemannisch.

lo-1

ຜູ້ໃຊ້ນີ້ມີຄວາມຮູ້ພາສາລາວ ລະດັບພື້ນຖານ.

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Ƿidsið maðolade,ƿordhord onleac,

se þe monna mæst mæᵹþa ofer eorþan,

folca ᵹeondferde. . .

Hello, I'm Widsith, I'm an administrator here and I'm English. I currently live in Zürich. I work on English pages as well as several foreign languages, and I'm particularly into etymologies, especially for non-English words.

Here I call myselfWidsith, which isan Old English word that means literally ‘long journey’, but it's used as a poetic name for someone who's travelled widely. I use it because I've lived abroad quite a lot, at various times in Morocco, Ecuador, and parts of Europe. There's an Old English poem called Widsið, too - someone at Wikipedia wrote an article about ithere.

In real life I am avideo journalist.

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Some historical French dictionaries

1816, Thomas Nugent,The New Pocket Dictionary of the French and English Languages (Paris)
1849,Boyer's French Dictionary (Boston)
1855, Alfred Elwes,French-English Dictionary (London)
1862, Smith & Hamilton,The International English & French Dictionary ("all words in common use or to be found in polite literature"...damn), (Paris)

Word of the day

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Word of the day
forFebruary 18

smatterv

(transitive)
1. (also figurative, obsolete) Tomake (someone or something)dirty; tobespatter, tosoil.
2. (by extension, US) Tohit (someone or something) with aliquid; tosplash, tospatter.
3. (figurative)
  1. Toapproach orstudy (something, such as asubject)superficially; todabble in.
  2. Tospeak (alanguage orwords) with only asuperficial knowledge of it.
(intransitive)
1. (US) To hit with a liquid; to splash, to spatter.
2. (figurative)
  1. To have aslight, superficialknowledge of something; to dabble.
  2. (obsolete) Totalk ignorantly orsuperficially; tobabble, tochatter.

smattern

Synonym ofsmattering.
1. Ashallow orsuperficial knowledge of asubject.
2. Asmall amount ornumber of something.

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Wonderful OE words

sinniht: everlasting night
uhtcearu: pre-dawn anxiety
angenga: lone traveller
yþlaf: detritus left by the waves

My accent

South-East England, "modern RP" / weak Estuary:

tissue buttuna:[ˈtɪʃjuː], [ˈtjuːnə] (some yod-coalescence!)
me:[mɪi] (diphthongisation of/iː/)
you:[jʊu] (diphthongisation of/uː/)
man:[man] (open short a-sound)
water:[ˈwɔːtə] (I don't usually glottalise intervocalic Ts)
poor:[pɔː] (poor andpaw are homophones)
put your umbrella up:[pʊʔjəɹʌmˈbɹɛləɹʌp] (tendency to use intrusive R)

Interesting (English) words

For a few years now I've been making a note of any word I have to look up while I'm reading (I read a lot). I'm putting them all into Wiktionary.Edit: All done! (Apart from a few dodgy forms that need some verification). I can maintain the list here at Wiktionary now – hurrah.