Albertde

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We're so glad you're here! JackLumber, 19:51, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

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un stage is not a STAGE

The example of "stage" for "intership" was beauteous! I can't believe that I forgot to add that one, especially because it's been a bone of contention in my work environment (teaching ESL to adults). The Quebec-born English teachers who grew up speaking three languages, the main one not being French or English, insist that the English word is "stage". Despite official government translations in Canada and Quebec and the reality of the Anglosphere, they continue to teach "stage" as the only word. I take it that they don't want to admit they they often speak an interlanguage. Also, I've heard it pronounced both in English and in French, the former pronunciation being quite confusing even for me who's fluent in French. CJ Withers 16:40, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

How do I send a message to a user who has made an erroneous edit? He changed waggon to wagon, not realizing that the former is the British spelling, inadvertently missing the point.

Use {{Template:Test1}}. or if he's already had this warning Test 2, Test 3, and then Test 4. After he's gone through them you want to post at WP:AIV. Or, you can make up a friendly template message that you could put on his/her talk page. ForestH2

Left tenant

Hi Albert, thanks for the heads-up. An American user recently posted that sleep in is usual to him and that he never heard sleep late before. Since there is really no British or American coloration attached to either, and both appear to be current in both dialects, according to a cursory lexicographic research, it might be a just a matter of idiolects; we can consult some reference, however. As for liutenant, I knew that the British pronounce it as in the above header. I'll restore the IPA transcription to avoid ambiguity. I incidentally took a look at your talk page---curiously enough, I independently added stage to the list of Canadian words as a Quebecism a couple days ago. Keep wikin', your multilingual knowledge is solid gold to us. JackLumber, 19:49, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

To be honest, I don't know if that pronunciation is considered standard or not. But it's definitely heard in Canada, it's not localized to a particular province or region, and AFAIK nobody else uses it, at least not in the U.S. or in Britain. JackLumber, 05:48, 10 June 2006 (UTC)