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inside | This user contributes with a computer based on the Intel Core i9 microprocessor. |
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| Violet | This user's favourite colour is violet. |
 | This user is a naturalist, who believes that only natural laws and forces operate in the universe. |
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| ض | This user can read the Arabic script. |
| Հ | This user can read the Armenian script. |
| ϯ | This user can read the Coptic script. |
| ქარ | This user can read the Georgian script. |
| αβγ | This user can read the Greek script. |
Latn-4
A | This user has a near-complete understanding of the Latin script. |
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US vs. UK | This user uses "logical quotation marks". Forcing internal punctuation leads to factual errors. It's not a nationalistic style issue! |
you one | This user knows that one should not use "you" in encyclopædic articles. |
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This user prefers that the subjunctive mood be used. Were this user you, he would use it.
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| if & whether | This user knows how to use "if" and "whether" correctly. |
| whom | This user insists upon using whom wherever it is called for, and fixes the errors of whomever he sees. |
| -ize | This user spells the suffix -ize with a z, as is etymologically appropriate! |
A, B, and
A and B | This user prefers to use the serial comma only when its omission can be confusing. |
| ubiquitous ≠ widespread | This user asserts that the more common word is often not the most precise. |
firemanfighter
mankind | This user supports the use of gender-neutral language when it reasonably exists as an alternative to a common gendered word. |
| . The | This user does not put two spaces after a full stop. |
try and
try to | This user tries to discourage usage of "try and". |
| "There's" with a plural subject | This user knows that "there's" with a plural subject is a pervasive grammatical error. There's There are too many people making this mistake. Don't be one of them. |
Pickyness Pickiness | This user changes the adjective ending "y" to "i" to form nouns with "-ness". |
| Majority ≠ right
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This user recognizes that even if 300,000,000 people make the same mistake, it's still a mistake.
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| amn't | This user considers amn't a perfectly logical alternative to aren’t in the first person singular. |
| couldn't've | This user believes that couldn't've would make a perfectly fine word. |
| ’s | Thi's user know's that not every word that end's with s need's an apostrophe and will remove misused apostrophe's from Wikipedia with extreme prejudice. |
| snuk | This user says snuck. |
| zoöglœæ | This user is an evil præscriptivist who's goïng to make Latin your plurals. |
| hopeably | This user encourages the hopeable popularization of the word hopeably, or even hopeäbly, and hopefully hopes that you hopeably do so too. |
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I’m Benjamin.
I generally make minor edits and contributions as i[1] visit Wikimedia sites for my own usage
I'm most well-equipped to contribute to articles about linguistics and languages but, in practice, principally just busy myself with improving writing and fixing textual and formatting errors.
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- ^ Implementation of my orthographic præferences is confined to this page
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