User:WikiPedant

Registered Wiktionary editor since March 11, 2007.

I am a retired university professor in Ontario, Canada. In Wiktionary I have added and edited philosophical terms and Canadianisms, and enjoy contributing idioms. I also like to root about at random. I make a special effort to add literary and scholarly quotations to entries, as well as verified references.

My Wikipedia user page is here.

My Wikimedia Commons photos are here.


 * Wiktionary: New English entries created = 2164  (excluding alt forms, redirects, plurals, etc.) 
 * as Silent Sam = 973  (from March 17 / 2011 up to and including Jan 10 / 2022) 
 * as Ghost of WikiPedant = 131  (from July 6 / 2010 up to and including Dec 6 / 2010) 
 * as WikiPedant = 1060  (from March 18 / 2007 up to and including Feb 26 / 2010) 

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Useful links

 * WMFlabs edit counter


 * Browse Wiktionary alphabetically
 * Randomly selected English entry
 * Wiktionary monthly counts, quarterly rankings, etc
 * Glossary of Wiktionary terminology
 * Idioms that survived RFD
 * Browse Categories alphabetically
 * Category:Canadian English
 * Transwiki:Glossary_of_Canadian_English_words
 * Category:Philosophy
 * Appendix:Astronomical_terms
 * Appendix:English_proverbs
 * List of all appendices
 * Robert Ullmann's list of context labels
 * Robert Ullmann's missing word lists
 * Brian0918's Hot List
 * User:HippieBot/Entries in Encarta online not in Wiktionary
 * Requested entries (English)
 * User:Msh210/Duesentrieb
 * User:Msh210/R%27n%27B
 * Visviva's "tracking" pages of missing words
 * User:Visviva/Hotlist_cited
 * Watcher


 * Corpus of Contemporary American English
 * American National Corpus
 * British National Corpus

Samples

 * Quotations: Acad journal: circular argument, Bible: fervent, Book(ed): sticking point, G&M: Timbit, Lit: akin, nark, Misc: egress, hyperbole, Winnipegger, NYT: little emperor, Ruakh: under erasure, TimeMag: straightforward, TimesOL: spiffing, Web: chump-change, joe job


 * References: Templates, AmHeritIdioms: mutual admiration society, CambrAdv: troubleshooting, CdnEnc: notwithstanding clause, Dict.com(multi-word): small fry, Encarta: Jeeves, Marines: numbnuts, OED2nd: smithers, RHWUED&OED2nd: busy work.


 * Usage notes: beg the question, druthers
 * Footnotes: ambulance chaser, outport, undoubtably
 * Multiple plural forms: compendium
 * Always plural: BVD's, dog days, druthers, smithers, short hairs, tix, trappings
 * with second thoughts, creative differences

Oddities

 * Entries created in 2005 by 82.96.100.100
 * Interesting philosophically-related edits by 124.19.0.118