User:The Editor's Apprentice

Hello and welcome to my user page! I have been an editor on English Wiktionary since 2017, as well as an English Wikipedia editor since 2014, and I am still learning! Feel free to contact me on my talk page if I've made a mistake, if you have any questions, or if you just wanna chat!

I am a native English speaker with a dialect and accent generally characteristic of the Northwestern US. You can see some notes on particular features of my accent below. I've had little exposure to other languages beyond a few years of Spanish and some Mandarin Chinese.

Following this introduction is a set of information and links which I generally find useful to have easily accessible to myself and which may also be helpful to you.


 * A table of corpuses and other resources to aid in English corpus linguistics.
 * Sandbox one and sandbox two where I test things out.
 * All my edits on Wiktionary.
 * My most significant and presentable edits.
 * A comprehensive analysis of my edits.
 * [ A record of the abuse filters I've triggered].
 * My to do list, I have a lot of ideas, but am not so quick to implement them! If any of the things on my to do list interest you, you are welcome to go ahead and do them. I'd be interested to hear about your process of creating any new entries on the list.
 * [ My subpages].
 * A link to a random English entry.

Quick reference
''None of the following reference information may be official or up to date! Please take all of it with a bit of common sense, and maybe even caution, especially don't take it as fact or as representing consensus!''

Discussing changes

 * What is my level of knowledge on the subject?
 * I need to learn from others/get their opinions.
 * Have previous discussions this subject occurred and reached clear consensus?
 * Yes. I will read them until I feel confident on the subject and to act independently.
 * No. I need to start a new discussion in a discussion room or wait until consensus might be reached at a later time
 * I feel very confident on this subject, am personally familiar with it, and am competent at acting independently.
 * Do rules and policy require that I have consensus from others before acting?
 * Yes. I will start a discussion at the relevant request page.
 * No. I will act.

Discussion rooms

 * Information desk ([ new]) : general questions, minor problems, specific requests for information or assistance.
 * Tea room ([ new]) : questions and discussions about specific words.
 * Etymology scriptorium ([ new]) : questions and discussions about etymology.
 * Beer parlour ([ new]) : policy discussions and proposals, requests for permissions, and major announcements.
 * Grease pit ([ new]) : technical questions, requests, and discussions.

Request pages

 * Requests for cleanup ([ new]) : cleanup requests, questions, and discussions.
 * Requests for deletion: English ([ new]) : requests for deletion and undeletion of English terms that violate policy.
 * Requests for deletion: non-English ([ new]) : requests for deletion and undeletion of non-English terms.
 * Requests for deletion: Others ([ new]) : requests for deletion and undeletion of pages outside of the main namespaces.
 * Requests for verification: English ([ new]) : requests for verification of English terms in the form of durably-archived usages
 * Requests for verification: non-English ([ new]) : requests for verification of non-English terms.
 * Requests for moves, mergers, and splits ([ new]) : Requests for moves, mergers, and splits and discussions of them.

Reference for term relationships and related

 * Hypernyms: Terms that directly encompass and are broader than the reference term.
 * Hyponyms: Terms that are directly encompassed by and more specific the reference term.
 * Meronyms: Terms that refer to parts of the reference thing.
 * Holonyms: Terms that refer to things that the reference thing is a part of.
 * Troponyms: Verbs that are more specific than the verb in question.
 * Coordinate terms: Terms that share a direct hypernym or multiple independent hypernyms with the reference term.
 * Related terms: Terms etymologically related to the reference term.
 * See also: Terms otherwise semantically related to the reference term. Non-entry dictionary pages, such appendices and categories, can also be listed here.
 * Further reading: Links to external sites, including sister Wikimedia projects.

Entry setup template
The following is are two page creation input box intended to be used to make new entries more quickly. The first box is designed to be used to setup more detailed entries while the second is designed to be used for simpler entries.

Evaluating etymologies
The following ratings are based on those described on Werdna Yrneh Yarg's user page.
 * [0] = Absolutely not - Only even noted for folk etymologies
 * [1] = Exceedingly unlikely
 * [2] = Unlikely
 * [3] = Questionable, potentially - suggested, but lacking clear/attested supporting evidence
 * [4] = Possible
 * [5] = Probable
 * [6] = Likely
 * [7] = Most likely, *Unattested, Ostensibly, Apparently
 * [8] = Attested
 * [9] = Obvious - only for connections within a lect or language community

Details to consider of etymons to consider:
 * Similarity in meaning
 * Existence of others terms in the reference language with a similar meaning to the reference term
 * Similarity in pronunciation
 * Level of contact between language communities
 * Existence of other terms in the reference language with a similar etymology
 * Proposed time period of the development
 * Early attestation of the reference term
 * Confidence in specific etymon
 * Attestation of proposed etymon
 * For specific origin claims, how straightforward is the etymology so that the reference term might have other parallel or antedating sources?

Accepted labels

 * Regional
 * Topics
 * Language Varieties

Language and family codes

 * List of languages
 * List of languages/special
 * List of families
 * Language treatment

Top-level categories

 * Category:en:All topics
 * Category:Thesaurus

Standard voting and discussion responses

 * Symbol support vote.svg Support
 * Symbol strong support vote.svg Strong support
 * GA candidate.svg Weak support
 * Symbol keep vote.svg Keep
 * Symbol speedy keep.svg Speedy keep
 * Symbol keep vote.svg Weak keep
 * Symbol redirect vote.svg Restore
 * Symbol keep vote.svg Agree
 * Yes check.svg Done
 * Yes check.svg Resolved
 * yellow check.svg Half done
 * Pictogram voting comment.svg Comment
 * Pictogram voting info.svg Info
 * Pictogram voting question-blue.svg Request
 * Pictogram-voting question.svg Question
 * Symbol unsupport_vote.svg I withdraw my support
 * Pictogram voting delete.svg I withdraw my nomination
 * Symbol oppose vote.svg Oppose
 * Symbol oppose vote oversat.svg Strong oppose
 * BA candidate.svg Weak oppose
 * [[Image:Symbol oppose vote.svg|20px]] Delist
 * Symbol redirect vote.svg Delist and replace
 * Symbol delete vote.svg Delete
 * Symbol speedy delete vote.svg Speedy delete
 * Symbol delete vote.svg Weak delete
 * Symbol delete vote.svg Disagree
 * X mark.svg Not done
 * Symbol neutral vote.svg Neutral
 * Time2wait.svg On hold
 * Symbol abstain vote.svg Abstain
 * Thumbs-up-icon.svg Great


 * done
 * fixed

Accent characteristics

 * Inside words, it is not uncommon for me to realize /t/ and /d/ as [ɾ] (as in /) or less commonly [ʔ] (as in, which differentiates it from [bʌɾɪn]).
 * At the end of words, instances of /t/ are often realized as [ʔ], such as in and.
 * and are homophones.
 * I frequently realize the cluster ⟨ing⟩, or homophones, as /iŋ/. Examples are and.
 * It is not uncommon for me to realize the cluster ⟨ing⟩ at the end of present participles as /ɪn/, especially in casual or quick speech. The standard representation of this is ⟨in'⟩.
 * The term is often realized [pçɪɹ] ~ [pjɪɹ], similarly to  and, which are [pɪɹ]. A similar thing sometimes happens with , realized [kçɪɹ] ~ [kjɪɹ].
 * The vowel /æ/ is raised in environments typical of the Western US, such as before /ŋ/ as well as before /n/ and /m/.
 * The vowels /ə/ and /ʌ/ as well as /ɝ/ and /ɚ/ are not actually produced differently. See and Appendix:English pronunciation.
 * I have the
 * The pairs /, /, and / can be homophones for me, but I can also differentiate / and / in other instances/when careful. This is probably part of the reason / don't seem to rhyme with / for me. Apparently this is called the.
 * As typical for people with accents like mine (per ), I will elide consonant that in the middle of clusters of three of more consonants.
 * A particularly noticeable instances of this in my experience is word final /sts/. Here, the realization is sometimes like [sɾs] as might otherwise be expected, but more often it is something like [sː]. Part of the reasoning beyond the gemination notation rather than transcribing it as a singleton [s] is that a word like ([pɛsɾs] ~ [pɛsː]) seems distinct to me from a hypothetical word  which would I would pronounce simply as [pɛs]. Overall, this suggests a downstream, unconscious or nascent consonant length distinction which could become more prominent or conscious in the future. Other words were similar processes occur include  and.
 * I have a bunched tongue type production of /r/.