User talk:HairyDan

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stress-timed versus syllable-timed

Thanks for the reference you supplied on stress-timed versus syllable-timed languages at [1]. I haven't tried a rewrite but I have tried to at least describe the existence of controversy at [2]. Kingdon (talk) 03:35, 7 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Trapezoid

I'm sorry I missed your comment on the talk page of Quadrilateral last March, but her is the reply I would have put there if I had seen it then:
The term trapezoid is not normally taught in UK schools because of its confused meaning (which has changed twice in British usage). Most schools just call the shape an irregular quadrilateral, but your teacher was using the genuine sense in which the word trapezoid was introduced by Proclus who lived around 410-485 AD. Many Commonwealth countries now use trapezoid as a synonym for the British Trapezium, and all the British websites I have been able to find use it either to mean the same as the British trapezium or a 3-D shape with some parallel sides. I would be very interested to know whether you have ever seen the trapezoid has no parallel sides used in print anywhere (other than copies of old dictionaries). I have not been able to find a single actual usage. Dbfirs 16:22, 22 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Editing the Chesire Cat Page

Hello, my name is Carolyn and I am part of a class project where we are hoping to edit and improve the Chesire Cat page. I saw that you have been part of the editing process before, and therefore wanted to reach out to you on behalf of my team to ask for help/advice. We are looking to add on to each of the existing sections on the page, give the page a design overhaul by adding charts, quotes, images, etc., and to do a comparison of the different cinema representations of the character. We were wondering if you have any suggestions of articles or other sources we could use for our project? Or any suggestions at all on the editing process on wikipedia?

If you would like to learn more about our class assignment, this is the link: [[3]]

The other members in me team are: Hannah McGough , Abby Sonnenfeldt , and Isabella Krell

Thank you and look forward to hearing from you,

Carolynella (talk) 16:05, 18 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]