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Gailtb

Joined 26 September 2005

My name is Gail and I live in London, UK. I started editing Wikipedia in Sept 2005.

One of my careers is as a teacher of ESOL and one of my contributions has been to improve the information on English language learning and teaching, including more of a British perspective. I re-organised the articles on American and British English differences and Language education. I've also written about the Life in the United Kingdom test for naturalisation as a British citizen. I started trying to sort information on Category:Grammar from information which is specifically about Category:English grammar but lost the will.

I want to research and document some of the first language backgrounds of my students: Somali, Tigrinya, Tigre and Blin. I've added an article on Languages of Eritrea.

I studied Linguistics at university. I speak the following languages to a greater or lesser extent: English, French, Flemish (Dutch), German, Hungarian and Mandarin Chinese. I have also studied Latin, Greek and Hebrew. A good friend of mine is from Ghana, a native speaker of Ga, so I am currently learning a little of that. I've added an article on Languages of Ghana.

I have also written about the abolition of slavery in the UK and the British Empire because of an interest in the parallels with the Trade Justice Movement.

My Wiki syntax and style reference edit

  • Redirect: #REDIRECT [[title]]
  • Main article reference, eg {{main|title}}
  • See also reference, eg ''See also:'' [[title1]], [[title2]]
  • Preferred order: See also, References, External links
  • class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
  • Templates and info boxes:
  • IPA: {{IPA|//}} or {{IPA|[]}}
  • IPA in Unicode notice: {{IPA notice}}
  • Categories:
  • Stubs:
    • Linguistics stub: {{ling-stub}}
    • Vocabulary and usage stub: {{vocab-stub}}
    • Writing system stub: {{writingsystem-stub}}
    • Language stubs: see Category:Language stubs
  • Disambiguation page: {{disambig}}, eg Mood
  • Non-neutral point of view: {{POV}} or {{POV-check}}
  • Active major edit: {{editing}}
  • Citation needed: {{Fact|date=June 2007}}
  • Pronunciation of name: ({{Pron-en|ˈbɝːmɪŋəm}})
  • Pronunciation of name with audio: ({{Pron-en|ˈbɝːmɪŋəm}}, {{Audio|en-uk-Birmingham.ogg|listen}})
  • Pronunciation of name with respelling: ({{Pron-en|ˈbɝːmɪŋəm}}, {{Respell|BəR|ming-əm}})
  • Pronunciation of name with respelling and audio: ({{Pron-en|ˈbɝːmɪŋəm}}, {{Respell|BəR|ming-əm}}, {{Audio|en-uk-Birmingham.ogg|listen}})
  • Alternative pronunciation: or {{IPAlink-en|'kɑrlaɪl}}
  • <ref>{{cite book |title= Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary |editor1-last= Roach |editor1-first= Peter |editor2-last= Hartman |editor2-first= James |editor3-last= Setter |editor3-first= Jane |editor4-last= Jones |editor4-first= Daniel |editor4-link= Daniel Jones (phonetician) |year= 2006 |publisher= CUP |location= Cambridge |edition= 17th |isbn= 978-0-521-68086-8 }}</ref>

My quick links edit

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