User:Jeffq



My primary wiki work is on en:Wikiquote (where I am a sysop) and en:Wikipedia. Please see my user pages there for more information. You can post Wiktionary discussions on my talk page here. Even if I'm not active here, I'll get the message. I reply to issues here on appropriate Wiktionary talk pages, and to Wiktionary users on their talk pages (with a copy on mine for reference).

Lately, I've been spending most of my Wiktionary time on adding sourced, fully cited quotations (preferably as old as I can find) to existing entries. This parallels my sourcing work on both Wikiquote and Wikipedia.

Entries I've created

 * CMA
 * do the nasty
 * ennealogy (ironically, mine is the 9th version)
 * ginchy
 * Google-fu
 * has-been
 * it's on
 * Minnesota nice
 * omphaloskeptic
 * scientifiction
 * YBP

Obviously, to paraphrase John Paul Jones, I've not yet begun to write. &#9786;

Neologisms to watch for
These are newly-coined terms I find intriguing, but whose reliable evidence for widespread use is inadequate (last time I checked).


 * Google ghost: An entity (usually a person) with no presence online (primarily due to absence from any popular search engine, like Google Search).
 * Moved to Citations:Google ghost.


 * liliputer (perhaps more properly lilliputer): An inexpensive, ultraportable computer, typically using an embedded-system-class processor like the ARM.
 * Derivation: Presumably a portmanteau of lilliputian and computer, "lilliputian" itself derived from the fictional race from Lilliput in Jonathan Swift's 1726 novel Gulliver's Travels.
 * Apparently coined by Grant Robertson, Download Squad blog, and popularized by freelance journalist Brad Linder of Liliputing.com.
 * Citations:
 * Arthur, Charles; "The rise of the all-conquering Liliputer"; The Guardian, 28 August 2008.
 * Hoover, Lisa; "Interview: Brad Linder Talks Linux and Ultraportable Computers"; OStatic.com; 3 September 2008.
 * Derived forms: liliputing (lilliputing)

Oddities

 * coulda shoulda woulda (or any of its other 5 permutations)
 * An colloquial interjection expressing regrets over missed opportunities
 * May or may not include commas, creating 12 textual variations
 * Doesn't really belong in any of individual entries for coulda, shoulda, or woulda
 * Doesn't seem to be a single preferred permutation
 * Google Book Search shows 6,200 hits (as of 4 October 2010), including many works whose titles are different permutations, so it's well-established in the English language

Quick links

 * Formatting and structure
 * Entry layout explained
 * Quotations
 * Work needed
 * Category:Abbreviations, acronyms and initialisms
 * Category:Requests for quotation
 * Wiktionary:Requested entries:English
 * User:Jeffq/Research