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2 October 2020

• 19:3019:30, 2 October 2020 diff hist 0 Owain Glyndŵr You've put 'Owain ab Gruffydd'. Should it not be 'Owain ap Gruffydd'? Possibly a typing error, as later on in the text you write 'Owain ap Gruffydd'.

7 August 2020

• 12:5512:55, 7 August 2020 diff hist +5 Vibrato The termord anglo-saxon is historically and ethnically incorrect when used in reference to English-speaking people. Many anglophones consider this term to be extremely insulting. It is like using the N word to refer to a person of colour.insult for many people. Tag: Reverted

24 July 2020

• 18:2118:21, 24 July 2020 diff hist +2,383 Talk:Sexual assault →Semi-protected edit request on 24 July 2020: new section

16 July 2020

• 18:5318:53, 16 July 2020 diff hist +116 Celtic Britons I most strongly object to your use of the word 'migration' when this refers to the anglosaxon menace, and 'invasion' when it concerns the Romans, whom I am proud to number among my mostly Celtic ancestors. In actual fact the anglosaxon menace appears to be largely confined to the east and south-east, if you look at the phenotype in those regions it is totally different to the phenotype in the west and south-west.

15 July 2020

• 18:1718:17, 15 July 2020 diff hist +7 A Shropshire Lad What a lovely text, I so enjoyed it (and laughed at the parodies too!) Thank you! I have substituted United Kingdom for England in the box.Officially England is not, or no longer, a country as it has no parliament of its own. And since Shropshire is on the border with Wales, and Shrewsbury (not to mention Birmingham!) is full of people of Welsh origin, it is respectful and inclusive to refer to the United Kingdom.

4 March 2020

• 12:0912:09, 4 March 2020 diff hist 0 Peace Palace Volgens o.a. de Nederlandstalige Wiki werd de Vredesvlam juist in 2002 buiten het hek geplaatst :-)

12 January 2020

• 16:0616:06, 12 January 2020 diff hist +3 Royal Dutch Touring Club No edit summary
• 16:0516:05, 12 January 2020 diff hist +69 Royal Dutch Touring Club Ik ben zo vrij (geweest) om je taalgebruik enigszins te corrigeren en verbeteren. Het is duidelijk dat je geen Engelstalige bent. Ik ben van oorsprong engelstalige (wel Nederlander geworden :-) en werk al decennia als vertaler NL-ENG. Groetjes!

24 December 2019

• 19:4319:43, 24 December 2019 diff hist +9 The Ruth Rendell Mysteries "Mentally challenged" is a hideous and disgusting Yankism. We used to say mentally handicapped when I was at school and I see nothing wrong with having a handicap of any kind. 2: Does being virginal make you a "good" person? And are sexy & seductive people by definition "bad"? You appear to have a disgustingly prudish & Victorian outlook on women.

17 December 2019

• 16:4216:42, 17 December 2019 diff hist −1 Wycliffe and the Cycle of Death The past participle of the verb to weave is woven (not weaved)

23 November 2019

• 15:3215:32, 23 November 2019 diff hist +7 Beast of Bodmin Moor Cornwall was recently granted official home nation status (even though it hasn't got its own government), so it is not part of England. Not that it ever was as far as the Cornish are concerned.

21 November 2019

• 13:1113:11, 21 November 2019 diff hist −67 Nanjing You obviously are not an anglophone! I've made a few corrections in your English, especially "transportation", which should be "transport". "Transportation" means a one-way luxury cruise to the Antipodes at the expense of the British Government (in other words, the deportation of convicted criminals to Australia in leaky rat-infested ships in the 19th century and earlier). However I have no idea what you mean by the word "highway": the word is archaic and hardly used in modern English.

16 November 2019

• 19:2019:20, 16 November 2019 diff hist −9 Maria Branwell No edit summary
• 19:0419:04, 16 November 2019 diff hist +1 Penzance No edit summary
• 19:0319:03, 16 November 2019 diff hist +30 Penzance I have updated your very interesting article (I grew up on the Cornish peninsula, although I am not ethnic Cornish but Irish/Welsh/French). Didn't you know that Cornwall was recently elevated to the status of separate home nation within the UK? In other words, you cannot refer to it as 'English' or part of 'England' (which it has never been anyway). Kernow has always been an independent nation but has not actually been recognised as such until a few years ago.

5 November 2019

• 20:4320:43, 5 November 2019 diff hist −10 Charles Dance No edit summary

28 October 2019

• 20:5720:57, 28 October 2019 diff hist +3 Louie Ramsay Ronan O'Casey was actually a Canadian from Québec, although both his parents were of Irish origin.

3 October 2019

• 19:1019:10, 3 October 2019 diff hist −2 Dutch language Brief correction in your English translation ("He will deliver my soul in peace from those who come on to me, because, amongst many, he was with me") You cannot use 'come on to me' without provoking considerable hilarity. 'Approach' is the correct translation of 'genaken'. I disagree with your contention that English is very close to Dutch. Vocabulary is key in any language. Standard (UK) English vocabulary is 80% French/Latin/other and is French/Latin oriented. US English is Dutch oriented.

10 September 2019

• 17:4617:46, 10 September 2019 diff hist −39 Carmen Souza "Zaragoza" is "Zaragoza" in English (not "Saragossa", for pity's sake!). Do not attempt to translate place names into English. Again, nobody will understand what on earth you mean. Use the original. People can always look the place up if they want to know more.
• 17:3917:39, 10 September 2019 diff hist −9 Carmen Souza I would guess you are not an anglophone as your English is strange and sometimes incomprehensible. For instance, this sentence: "because its variants allow her a flexibility for the language to meld with different cadences ..." Meld?? What is "meld"? It certainly isn't English. Also "flexibility" is an UNCOUNTABLE noun!! I do wish non-anglophones wouldn't attempt writing in English as it's invariably quite dreadful and incomprehensible. Be aware that English is a VERY difficult language.

27 July 2019

• 14:2414:24, 27 July 2019 diff hist −13 Climate-adaptive building shell No edit summary
• 14:2314:23, 27 July 2019 diff hist +6 Climate-adaptive building shell Can you include a version of this article in Dutch, please? (I am guessing you are Dutch!)

6 July 2019

• 19:2219:22, 6 July 2019 diff hist +1 Social conditioning This article would be most interesting if I could understand it (I'm anglophone!) It's obvious that English isn't your first language, as many of your sentences are totally incomprehensible.E.g. "in accordance to" does not exist in English (should be "according to"). Or: "Such conditions the individual to continuously partake in the activities ascribed to (...)" which does not make any sense whatsoever. Please get this article edited & corrected by an anglophone editor.

14 May 2019

• 18:2518:25, 14 May 2019 diff hist +8 Michael Gove Some of your expressions are so odd that I am wondering if English is actually your first language. Other bits are frankly incomprehensible so I haven't been able to edit them.
• 17:4817:48, 14 May 2019 diff hist −15 Goth subculture I have deleted the word "England" in two places. It is totally unnecessary to state that Yorkshire or Lancashire are in England! Where else would they be ?!?

27 April 2019

• 13:1313:13, 27 April 2019 diff hist −2 Maury Henry Biddle Paul Should be nom de plume, (the alias used by an author, literally meaning "pen name" in English). As far as I know, the word "nomme" doesn't exist in French. There is a word "nommé", meaning named, called or appointed in English, but that would not make sense in your context.

14 April 2019

• 14:1814:18, 14 April 2019 diff hist +1 Lily Maisky Should be "vigour" (not "vigor), especially in the United Kingdom

6 April 2019

• 17:3517:35, 6 April 2019 diff hist 0 Irish Travellers I

2 March 2019

• 19:2419:24, 2 March 2019 diff hist −2 Jane Birkin "Moi non plus" should be (loosely) translated as "nor do I" , not as "me neither" which is okay for spoken language, but frankly vulgar in written language.
• 19:1919:19, 2 March 2019 diff hist 0 Jane Birkin "Nationality: English" ??? No such thing as "English nationality". England is a region in the United Kingdom. It has not been an independent nation since 1706.

19 February 2019

• 18:4518:45, 19 February 2019 diff hist +21 Koek-en-zopie Koek-en-zopie cannot be translated with "cookie and hooch". That is not proper English. Similarly, "slijterij" should not be translated as "liquor store" but as "off-licence"; however for the sake of clarity I have translated this in more general terms (I'm an anglophone and I speak fluent Dutch, in case you're wondering!)
• 18:1618:16, 19 February 2019 diff hist −5 Lee Evans (comedian) If his mum is Irish, his dad is Welsh, and he was born in Wales, he is definitely not "English". And your info about his birthplace is conflicting. First you say he was born in Newport, Gwent and then you say he was born in Avonmouth, Bristol. Mistakes happen, but you should not automatically refer to people as "English". That word is a dreadful insult to many.

23 January 2019

• 19:0719:07, 23 January 2019 diff hist +2 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman I've changed your word "womb" into "uterus" because "womb" is hopelessly archaic and even biblical, besides being an incredibly ugly word. Also in References you might include the reference to Tristram Shandy in Dorothy Sayers' novel Have His Carcase. Protagonist Harriet Vane falls asleep while reading a copy of "Tristram Shandy" on the beach. This bit is fairly near the beginning of the book.

20 December 2018

• 14:1814:18, 20 December 2018 diff hist +1 Susan Howatch Just made a minor change about Cashelmara: you wrote Edward DeSalis and Patrick De Salis. In Europe, surnames of e.g. French/Norman/Italian origin beginning with "de" and followed by a second separate word (e.g. "Salis") are always spelt with a small letter d for the "de". Never with a capital D. Also the two parts of the surname are never joined together (e.g. "DeSalis"). If you look at the book you'll see that Howatch herself never uses a capital D for this name or joins the two parts together

26 November 2018

• 19:0819:08, 26 November 2018 diff hist +12 Januarius Elizabeth is queen of the entire UK, not only of "England". England has not been a sovereign nation since the Acts of Union (1706-1707, if I remember right). It is now merely a region, not officially a country, as it does not have its own parliament. By the way, you do not mention the fact that the people of Naples get extremely upset and start anticipating all kinds of disasters if San Gennaro's blood fails to liquefy. This fact is definitely worth mentioning.

20 October 2018

• 19:4019:40, 20 October 2018 diff hist +18 Plenty (film) No edit summary
• 19:3619:36, 20 October 2018 diff hist −16 Plenty (film) I've corrected various minor spelling errors in your text and also deleted Belgium from your "Brussels, Belgium" and England from your "London, England". I imagine everyone knows that Brussels is the capital of Belgium and London is the capital of the United Kingdom. It is completely superfluous (and insulting to the intelligence!) to add the names of these two countries.

16 October 2018

• 10:0410:04, 16 October 2018 diff hist 0 Alice Merton If her mother is German, her father is Irish and she was born in Germany, she cannot be described as "English". British yes, because she holds a British passport.

15 September 2018

• 17:0017:00, 15 September 2018 diff hist +4 William de Mandeville, 3rd Earl of Essex No edit summary
• 16:5716:57, 15 September 2018 diff hist +2 William de Mandeville, 3rd Earl of Essex I have altered your word "fall" to "autumn". Fall is never used outside the United States, not even in Canada, so the majority of the anglophone world use "autumn". Since this concerns a Norman-English family, I would give preference to the standard English word. Quite apart from the fact that "autumn" is a very pretty and chic word, but "fall" is excessively ugly!! I cannot imagine why Americans use it.

16 August 2018

• 15:5115:51, 16 August 2018 diff hist +6 England in the High Middle Ages →Geography: Poorer soil and colder climate indeed in the north, but not in the west. In the (south-)west of Britain it's considerably less cold than in the east (prevailing SW winds), and the soil is richer too, judging by the much more luxuriant vegetation in the west.
• 15:0715:07, 16 August 2018 diff hist 0 England in the High Middle Ages →Society: Conquest (not invasion) is the official and preferred term for the Norman assumption of power in England in 1066. Preferred, because the Norman (and later Angevin/French) settlement brought French civilisation to England, which of course can only be a good thing! It also ensured that the language became more French/Latin: another positive change.

5 August 2018

• 19:2019:20, 5 August 2018 diff hist −5 Hawk (disambiguation) I've corrected your word "transportation" as nowadays it has a rather hilarious if sinister meaning: it refers to a one-way luxury cruise to the Antipodes, free of charge and graciously provided to felons at the expense of the British Government in the 19th century, and doubtless in the 18th as well.

29 July 2018

• 17:4417:44, 29 July 2018 diff hist +1 Yves Rocher (company) Another thing, in Europe we write the date in the following order: day, month and year (e.g. 21 August 2018) without any commas anywhere. In other words, we do not write "August 21, 2018". You are writing about a European company so please make sure you write all dates in the correct manner.
• 17:3817:38, 29 July 2018 diff hist +1 Yves Rocher (company) No edit summary
• 17:3717:37, 29 July 2018 diff hist −13 Yves Rocher (company) Of course Brittany is in France! Where else would it be? (Even though it is admittedly one of the great Celtic Nations of Europe, it is still located within what is now France)
• 16:1516:15, 29 July 2018 diff hist +217 Centennial (miniseries) Just made a couple of changes in "Winds of Death" about the Grebe tragedy: I am sure Earl was much more likely to feel "appalled and horrified" than "enraged" (your word) by the fact that Alice had stabbed 2 of her children. And this must have been absolutely the last straw for him as they were facing bankruptcy and eviction. Nothing left for them to live for. I hope you endorse my changes (and my views on this!)

13 May 2018

• 15:5915:59, 13 May 2018 diff hist 0 Rupert Evans "Nationality: English"? There is no such thing as English nationality! The adjective "English" refers solely to ethnic identity in this context.

25 April 2018

• 18:1518:15, 25 April 2018 diff hist −1 Marriage bar I have edited your English as far as I am able; you are obviously not a native speaker. But your article is a very praiseworthy attempt.
• 18:0718:07, 25 April 2018 diff hist −1 Mommy track →The United Kingdom: The "Anglo-Saxons" officially ceased to exist after the Great Norman Conquest in 1066. Referring to present-day English speakers of predominantly Celtic, Gaelic, Norman and French origin in the British Isles and Canada is nothing short of ludicrous, as well as historically and ethnically incorrect.