User:Yst
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[edit] Who am I?
A public librarian and graduate from the University of Toronto's Faculty of Information Studies, whose chief areas of personal expertise include (intuitively) Library and Information Studies, as well as (less intuitively) English historical linguistics and comparative linguistics.
[edit] Yst?
The name Yst is an otherwise non-notable Old English word which I somewhat arbitrarily adopted as my username a several years ago for all online purposes, on the simple basis that it is
- 1) Only three letters long and thus arcade-machine compliant for name entry purposes, as well as being in general conveniently short, should it need to be re-entered a hundred times a day.
- 2) Rather elegantly, roughly interchangeable with its IPA transcription, for pronunciation purposes. The 'y' is a high front rounded vowel, as /y/.
- 3) Of a rare enough formation that it is unlikely to be claimed in any given system where a username need be chosen.
- 4) Possessed of not too silly an Old English meaning, that being 'storm' or 'tempest'.
[edit] Contributions
Articles I have authored from the ground up presently include
I have also contributed the bulk of Exeter Book's current text.
