User:Aelfgifu
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Aelfgifu is a fine old Anglo-Saxon name. Can't imagine why it fell out of favour. ;-) There are actually Anglo-Saxon first names still in use: Edward and Edmund, for example, and loads of surnames, such as anything ending in "-wine" or "-win", Godwin etc.
As you may have guessed, I like history. I also like science fiction and fantasy. Anything but current events! I do pay attention to current events, but don't ask because my mama told me, "If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all").
My skills are:
- good at spelling (holding two English dictionaries — UK/US — simultaneously in my feeble brain)
- pretty good at stringing words into coherent sentences
- digressing from the subject1 — look is that a rainbow?
- drawing pretty diagrams
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Oh, and I know a bit about software. Because this is my profile and not an article, I will express my own opinion here. I know quite a bit about the loathesome Microsoft Word. I absolutely despise Word (and that's because I was forced to use it just about every day for an astonishingly large number of years. So I know whereof I speak). I can actually force it to do just about anything I want, and in response it slithers around behind my back and changes things when I'm not looking. You might call it a hate-hate relationship. In the interests of NPOV, Microsoft Word is actually quite a good product to use at home to type up a letter to the bank and things like that. Where it falls down is in places like offices where lots of different people are expected to use it in a communal sort of way. Unfortunately, that's where it's mostly used.
I live in England with three feline confederates and a really cool astronomer.
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