User talk:Abney

Hello,

I've mainly been working with

• commas (English and German)
  • ("Y'all come back now, ya hear" List of American words not widely used in the United Kingdom
  • ("Können Sie mir erzählen, was dieser Satz bedeutet?" Low Germanic languages)
• tweaking grammar
  • ("Tire is the older" vs. "oldest" American and British English spelling differences)
  • ("keine niederdeutschen Sprachen" Low Germanic languages)

Beyond that, I have made a small addition that American English does, indeed, use both spellings ("draft" and "draught") for, say, "draft beer," which can incidentally also be called "beer on tap." I don't really drink, but I'm interested in language. American and British English spelling differences

Source(MLA format):

"Draft." Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language. 2nd ed. 1986.

Thanks for your patience as I join the Wikipedia community. I'll attempt to clean up the appearance of this page as time goes on.

Abney 05:49, 18 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome!

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What you've put above is usually put on userpages (so, in your case, at User:Abney). Have fun! Mak (talk) 05:02, 18 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps after I organize this page a bit more, but thanks for letting me know that I could have a user page. Abney 05:24, 18 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You can link to internal pages using the article's title and double-brackets, so for Low Germanic Languages it'd be [[Low Germanic languages]]. You just have to be careful with the cases. :) Mak (talk) 05:12, 18 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Helpful information. Different from the wiki work I do elsewhere. Thanks. Abney 05:24, 18 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]