User contributions for SMcCandlish

23 March 2024

• 20:3220:32, 23 March 2024diff hist +48‎ medial‎ →‎Adjective: Clarify: the linguistics use is not confined to phonology/phonetics (e.g. both the letters "s" are medial in "asset", which was often written/printed "aſſet" or "aſset" in the 18th C. specifically because of the medial position).current

15 February 2024

• 09:3009:30, 15 February 2024diff hist +16‎ inquit‎ actually provide the definition, not just relation to infinitive formcurrent

17 November 2023

• 00:3100:31, 17 November 2023diff hist −66‎ eigen-‎ →‎Prefix: rm. redundant examples already found by {{prefixsee|en}}; I'm not sure why it's not finding the other blue links in here like eigendynamic, eigenexcitation, eigenket, eigensection; my guess would be some missing prefix-related template at those articles.
• 00:2700:27, 17 November 2023diff hist −18‎ eigen-‎ seems to belong up here not down there

1 June 2023

• 15:0915:09, 1 June 2023diff hist −9‎ mdoughty‎ →‎Etymology: don't use circular definitions

31 May 2023

• 02:0102:01, 31 May 2023diff hist +497‎ NTalk:polyviscose‎ →‎Incorrect definition?: new sectioncurrentTag: New topic

8 April 2021

• 17:3217:32, 8 April 2021diff hist −20‎ mfillip‎ →‎Noun: No one has used "smart" in that sense for about a century. Sheesh. The dictionary is meant to elucidate, not confuse.

15 February 2021

• 21:1421:14, 15 February 2021diff hist −66‎ lionize‎ →‎Verb: or just remove it as nonsense

12 February 2021

• 21:2721:27, 12 February 2021diff hist −8‎ goliardia‎ →‎Further reading: link to en.wp article from en.wikt
• 21:2621:26, 12 February 2021diff hist +153‎ goliardia‎ →‎Noun: main actual meaning in modern Italian

29 November 2020

• 22:1722:17, 29 November 2020diff hist −7‎ reverend‎ link cleanup
• 22:1722:17, 29 November 2020diff hist 0‎ reverend‎ →‎Adjective: not the same definition (and the second is dubious anyway)

16 October 2020

• 10:1210:12, 16 October 2020diff hist +1‎ MRW‎ →‎Phrase: Space ("Foo bar ..." indicates an unfinished expression; "Foo bar..." indicates that "bar..." is a truncated word).
• 10:1010:10, 16 October 2020diff hist +333‎ MFW‎ →‎Phrase: Second (and now more common) sense; more usage notes

11 October 2020

• 06:3106:31, 11 October 2020diff hist −6‎ gallant‎ →‎Adjective: rm. incorrect capitalization
• 06:2706:27, 11 October 2020diff hist +19‎ gala‎ →‎Noun: Make that make some sense in English.

22 April 2020

• 11:4111:41, 22 April 2020diff hist +6‎ mpaal‎ that didn't quite work, either

19 March 2020

• 20:4120:41, 19 March 2020diff hist −168‎ mcalve‎ →‎Verb: ditto
• 20:4020:40, 19 March 2020diff hist −86‎ calve‎ →‎Verb: rm. redundant example

21 February 2020

• 01:4001:40, 21 February 2020diff hist +411‎ Dictionary: Tea room/2020/February‎ →‎clown-car primary: r

13 February 2020

• 02:1402:14, 13 February 2020diff hist +2,398‎ NTalk:aliquant‎ →‎Figural usage (in English): new topiccurrent

3 February 2020

• 11:3011:30, 3 February 2020diff hist +10‎ japonisme‎ →‎English: template fix
• 11:3011:30, 3 February 2020diff hist +496‎ japonisme‎ USUALLY capitalized as Japonisme in English (also, quite rarely, Japonism), but sometimes done "proper French" style as lower-case japonisme.Tags: etyl new-L2
• 11:2811:28, 3 February 2020diff hist +515‎ NJaponisme‎ Creating page; dup. of Japonism, since this Japonisme which is actually the norm in English-language sources, though incorrectly capitalized under French-language capitalization rules (which would have japonisme).Tag: etyl
• 11:2511:25, 3 February 2020diff hist +44‎ Japonism‎ Much, much more often Japonisme than Japonism in English.
• 11:2211:22, 3 February 2020diff hist −83‎ chinoiserie‎ →‎English: No particular reason to single out those three languages as "needed".
• 11:2111:21, 3 February 2020diff hist +736‎ NChinoiserie‎ Creating page; dup. of chinoiserie, but for capitalized version, which is actually the norm in English-language sources, though incorrect under French-language capitalization rules.Tag: WT:NORM
• 11:1811:18, 3 February 2020diff hist +52‎ chinoiserie‎ →‎English: This is actually usually capitalized in English.

12 June 2019

• 16:4716:47, 12 June 2019diff hist +1‎ mwaifu‎ Comma required here ("anime" and "manga" are not modifiers of "game" in this sentence).
• 16:4516:45, 12 June 2019diff hist +1‎ mhusbando‎ Comma required here ("anime" and "manga" are not modifiers of "game" in this sentence).

8 November 2018

• 16:5416:54, 8 November 2018diff hist +259‎ Dictionary: Grease pit/2018/November‎ →‎Fatal exception of type "UnexpectedValueException": r
• 01:0801:08, 8 November 2018diff hist +731‎ Dictionary: Grease pit/2018/November‎ →‎Fatal exception of type "UnexpectedValueException": ???
• 00:3400:34, 8 November 2018diff hist +29‎ Npēdō‎ redir (does not qualify under the "inflected forms, plurals, misspellings, translations or abbreviation expansions" redirect ban; it's an alternative glyph case)currentTags: New redirect redirect
• 00:3300:33, 8 November 2018diff hist −2‎ pedo‎ move senseid marker higher up to provide the full context for it
• 00:2600:26, 8 November 2018diff hist +6‎ pēdere‎ more specific linkcurrentTag: Redirect target changed
• 00:2500:25, 8 November 2018diff hist +20‎ Npēdere‎ redir (does not qualify under the "inflected forms, plurals, misspellings, translations or abbreviation expansions" redirect ban; it's an alternative glyph case)Tags: New redirect redirect

10 March 2018

• 10:1510:15, 10 March 2018diff hist −63‎ waifu‎ Um, no. This is a real-world dictionary, not a "what I'm fantasizing in game-world" dictionary.

13 January 2018

• 17:5917:59, 13 January 2018diff hist +211‎ User:SMcCandlish‎ updatecurrent

8 January 2018

• 06:4306:43, 8 January 2018diff hist +72‎ till‎ →‎Preposition: "It's twenty till two" is another "until" case; distinguish the obsolete (physical) "to"; put examples in same order as sub-definitions.
• 06:3006:30, 8 January 2018diff hist 0‎ till‎ →‎Preposition: put non-dialectal meaning first

11 December 2017

• 07:4807:48, 11 December 2017diff hist +792‎ Nblecherous‎ creating page
• 07:0607:06, 11 December 2017diff hist +117‎ bletcherous‎ Alternative form (the original, but no longer common); template update
• 07:0207:02, 11 December 2017diff hist −47‎ bletcherous‎ self-rv to fix edit summary
• 07:0007:00, 11 December 2017diff hist −8‎ mTemplate:quote-web/documentation‎ ce
• 06:3906:39, 11 December 2017diff hist +47‎ bletcherous‎ "alternative" (actual original and most common) form

3 October 2017

• 20:0920:09, 3 October 2017diff hist −3‎ till‎ →‎Synonyms: 'til isn't "non-standard" but very well attested in professional writing
• 20:0820:08, 3 October 2017diff hist 0‎ until‎ →‎Synonyms: The 'til spelling is well attested, and the till spelling is even less standard.

7 September 2017

• 06:1306:13, 7 September 2017diff hist 0‎ pace‎ →‎Etymology 2: Put the less "mangled by yokels" pronunciation first. I would think that /ˈpɑːseɪ/ would also be included (not everyone goes for Italianization), though not /ˈpɑːkeɪ/, since the Classical k-before-e/i isn't common in modern use.

12 January 2017

• 11:3911:39, 12 January 2017diff hist +5‎ mnr.‎ heading fixTag: abbr-headers
• 11:3711:37, 12 January 2017diff hist −3‎ nr.‎ typo