User:Musical Linguist/About me

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This user is of Irish ancestry.

This user is a professional Musician

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I'm Irish and live in Ireland. I've been a Wikipedian since April 2005, and an administrator since November 2005. My main qualifications are in Music and Linguistics.

My interests on Wikipedia include:

• Biography
• Catholic theology and lives of saints
• Cooking
• Educational topics such as academic degrees.
• Linguistics and grammar
• Literature
• Music
• Nutrition

Articles I started

I like:

• Archaic words
• Cardinal Arinze
• Jane Austen
• Beethoven
• Benedict XVI
• Brahms
• The Brontë sisters
• Edmund Campion
• Cooking (click here and here to see two of my masterpieces)
• George Eliot
• Enjambment (also spelled enjambement)
• French
• -ize spellings for verbs which allow a choice between -ise and -ize
• John Paul II
• Francis Ledwidge
• Jérôme Lejeune
• C.S. Lewis
• John Milton
• Open University courses
• Nicholas Owen (built hiding places for priests; died on the rack)
• Oxford commas
• Paris
• Phonics
• Plainchant
• Samuel Richardson
• Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (translated by Fitzgerald)
• Schubert
• Semicolons
• Shakespeare
• Robert Southwell
• Charles Trenet
• Sheldon Vanauken

I dislike:

• Antibiotics (when not necessary)
• Bananas
• Brussels sprouts
• Cauliflower
• Charles Dickens
• Greengrocers' apostrophes
• Inclusive language, particularly in Bible translations and in the liturgy
• Lies
• Ms. as a social title (if I were familiar with Ms. magazine, I would dislike that too)
• Nominative pronouns used incorrectly, as in "between you and I"
• Obscene or Profane language
• "Of" as an auxiliary verb (as in "I should of done it")
• Singular they in formal writing (even though my favourite writer used it)
• Wasps