User talk:StephenBailey

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bodge
Thanks for your interest in this word. However do not delete meanings and etymologies without citing sources or giving reasons. If you want to add more meanings, that's fine. However there is a request for deletion process for deleting dubious meanings. Mglovesfun (talk) 17:30, 20 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Just wanted to thank you for your thoughtful discussion at bodge, under the Etymology heading, but Mglovesfun beat me to it. This is actually not the best place for such a discussion. If you could distill your thoughts to a few brief (pithy) sentences under a "Usage notes" heading (after the definitions), it would be really great! - Amgine/talk 17:35, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I've actually got a citation from 1865 now, see bodge. Mglovesfun (talk) 17:41, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

Apologies form my cack-handed edit there chaps, I'm new to this wiki business and would appreciate some coaching. I'm am disgraphic too (you won't believe how long it takes me to write!) so my entries may be a bit higgy-piggy. I do feel that the definition I put forward is alive and well in modern language. Within specialist fields and in the broader sense, not everybody confuses the two. However,in area not everybody realises that there is a difference. My point is that this definition IS in common usage, however not necessarily areas where it's common for it's speakers to enshrine it in text. For me personally and in my field of work there is no question as to the words meaning and that it has been distinct for a long time