User:John Cross

Welcome to my user page. I am editing using my real name. I enjoy adding missing English language entries to Wiktionary. I like to think I am a. I take the view that Wiktionary should strive to provide a definition for any terms that are in common use, including place name, road names, codes, etc. I am an. I am generally against the use of redirects (in the main space). In my view, each alternative spelling should get its own entry however short.

I have noted some areas of interest below but almost every entry has multiple contributors.

I have done quite a bit of work on reduplications.

Articles created: >480

Archaic words
added: -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -

to add:  -

Democracy, government and politics
added: -  -  -  -   -  -  -  -

to add: -

213 Offices in total per Hansard 1803–2005. I am not sure each of these is worth a separate entry so I have only made the ones I think do deserve an entry into links.


 * /UK offices to add

Law
added: -  -  -  (enemy of all mankind) -  -  -  -  -  (en) -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -

to add: -  -  -  -  -  -

Numerical
added: -  -  -  -  -  - Five-bar gate tally (unsupported at the time) to add: - grade of flour
 * Category:English terms containing Roman numerals

Letter-shaped
/letter-shaped - D-ring - H-beam - K-tool - Y-splitter

Shapes
added: cone-shaped - hexahex - leaf-shaped - ring-shaped

Currency codes
Added: -  -  -  -

E numbers
Added: - E392 - E407a - E423 - E425 - E426 - E427 - E468 - E469 - E470a - E470b - E479b - E499 - E514 - E515 - E516 - E914 - E960 - E961 - E964 - E969 - E1203 - E1205 - E1206 - E1207 - E1208 - E1209 - E1451 -E1519 - E1517 -

Land and locations
added:, , To do: British Islands.

Legal doublets

 * /legal doublets
 * /legal triplets

Occupations
Added: -  -  -  -  -  -  -

Adjectives after the noun
Added: -

Richard Nixon and China!
- -  -  -

Reduplication
I created categories: Category:English reduplicated coordinated triples and Category:English words containing three consecutive instances of the same letter and I have also done quite a lot of work on the category now called: Category:English reduplicated coordinated pairs.

Added: -  -  -  -

To add (possibly): -   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  ( a chant response) -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -.

Retronyms
- -

Similes
free as the wind - gentle as a lamb - grave as a judge - smooth as butter - smooth as oil - wise as an owl

Tautophrases


Category:English tautophrases

Time
added: -  -  -  -  -  -

Curious and unusual
-

Additional senses

 * (in the Houses of Parliament)
 * (in philosophy)
 * (part of a pair of scissors)
 * (in typography)
 * (a dandelion)
 * ('others' used in case citations)
 * (part of naval sword)
 * (in dueling)
 * (part of a key)
 * (the legal maxim)

Others
added: -  -  -  -  -  -  -  (more modern sense) -  -  -  -  -  -  -

to add: (if criteria are met) - -  (non-SI unit & also shoe manufacturer?) -   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -

to check: predicting future by sitting in a drawn circle,  predicting future by boiling a donkey's head,  predicting future by 'ravings of lunatics'. (ritual slaughter of a ram)


 * /sandbox
 * /cakes
 * /degrees
 * /orders and decorations
 * /knots
 * template:polyominoes


 * Entry layout explained

Links to appendices

 * Appendix:List of forms of government
 * Appendix:ISO 216 paper sizes
 * Appendix:List of legal doctrines
 * Appendix:List of legal Latin terms

Random

 * A random English entry (lemma).

Reference materials
Template:R:Halliwell Dictionary Template:R:Lancashire dialect Template:R:Somersetshire


 * A Dictionary of the Anglo-Saxon Language
 * A General Dictionary of Commerce, Trade, and Manufactures: Exhibiting Their Present State in Every Part of the World; and Carefully Comp. from the Latest and Best Authorities

Useful pages

 * Frequency lists
 * Redlink dumps