Donnanz
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Current status: retired, widower.
My name is Donald, which I shorten to Don. With the family name of Hodgkinson, this gives one less syllable to pronounce. Needless to say, I am no fan of Donald Trump - Donald Duck is far more tolerable.
I tend to specialise in English, British English in particular, as well as Norwegian translations, and occasionally Danish and Swedish.
I am a firm believer in the British -ise spellings. These are used as far afield as New Zealand, where I was born, brought up and educated. As a result I have used them all my life. Moreover, one hardly ever sees the -ize spellings being used in Britain, where I live now.
There are British spellings I don't use: I prefer enthrall instead of enthral, and distill instead of distil.
A useful referenceEdit
This is a useful reference for checking between Bokmål and Nynorsk words and spellings: [1]. Lexin also has audio for both Bokmål and Nynorsk words, which is really handy.
Milestones: Number of pages created:Edit
- 35,001 (as of 14 September 2016)
- 40,001 (11 April 2017)
- 45,004 (17 January 2018)
- 50,003 (22 August 2018)
- 55,004 (7 February 2019)
- 60,004 (31 August 2019)
- 65,004 (10 October 2020)
- 66,005 (3 February 2021)
Nominations for Word of the DayEdit
- 24-hour clock: no date set
- abeyant: 12 July 2019
- acid test: no date set
- agribusiness: 5 Dec 2019
- aid and abet: no date set
- alight: no date set
- angle parking: 13 Dec 2017
- any port in a storm: no date set
- apprise: no date set
- argumentative: 17 June 2020
- armful: 16 July 2020
- asymptomatic: no date set
- avoid like the plague: 22 Feb 2018
- beauty spot: no date set
- benighted: 11 April 2020
- biomass: no date set
- blastpipe: no date set
- blimey: 30 July 2020
- bloke: set for 13 Dec 2020
- boardwalk: 1 June 2018
- boffin: 11 Feb 2019
- bogie: 16 Jan 2021
breast: rejected, even the verb- brinkmanship: no date set
- Bronx cheer: 19 April 2019
- bulldog clip: 23 March 2019
- bunker: no date set
- business end: no date set
- butterfat: 8 Feb 2017
- campanile: set for 18 July 2021
- camp fever: set for 29 April 2021
- carrier wave: 27 July 2019
- catchment: 20 May 2017
- cave painting: 17 Oct 2020
- chance upon: no date set
- chorus: no date set
- cirque: 7 July 2018
- clayey: nominated for 5 Dec
- cleavage: 9 Sept 2016
- clinker-built: set for 20 May 2021
- coaster: for World Maritime Day
- cobbler: no date set
- coffee table book: 5 July 2019
- comply: 8 April 2019
- contraction: no date set
- conversely: 2 March 2019
- cornfield meet: 13 Sept 2018
- cronyism: no date set
- cupboard: 22 July 2016
- curious: 10 March 2020
- cut-out: 15 Jan 2017
- cutting: 25 July 2020
- daily bread: 14 April 2017
- daunting: 3 Jan 2020
- deem: 10 April 2019
- devilment: no date set
- dioxin: 14 Jan 2021
- disimprovement: 10 June 2019
- dispatch box: no date set
- doubt: 15 March 2020
- dovetail: no date set
- dragline, appeared as dragline excavator 27 Dec 2017
- drawing board: 2 Oct 2017
- dress: no date set
- dressing room: 26 Feb 2017
- duodenum: 29 May 2017
- eat away: no date set
- electorate: no date set
- elephant trap: no date set
- elucidate: no date set
- emote: no date set
- emu: 26 Jan 2019
- endorheic: 9 Nov 2020
- engineer: no date set
- enough is enough: no date set
- eponymous: no date set
- ether: 31 May 2019
- euphonious: no date set
- exit: 13 May 2020
- extremity: 8 Oct 2017
- fair-minded: 20 Feb 2021
- fall at the final hurdle: no date set
- fall by the wayside: 10 Jan 2020
- far-flung: no date set
- fifth wheel: 28 May 2020
- filch: 8 Aug 2017
- filter bed: 9 March 2021
- firth: 30 Nov 2020
- fishy: 25 April 2017
- fjord: 17 May 2019
- flagon: no date set
- flare: 3 Feb 2019
- flawless: 2 Aug 2020
- fly ash: no date set
- fly in the ointment: 8 Nov 2020
- folk medicine: no date set
- footbath: 18 April 2019
- foot-dragging: no date set
- footfall: no date set
- forthcoming: 28 Dec 2019
- fruiterer: 14 Nov 2018
- gadfly: no date set
- gasbag: 23 Aug 2016
- gaslight: 5 Dec 2020
- gateleg: no date set
- gazetteer: no date set
- gecko: 12 Sept 2016
- gee-gee: 4 Aug 2017
- Georgian: 26 June 2017
- get one's knickers in a twist: no date set
- ghost town: 27 April 2018
- gig: no date set
- gilder: 15 April 2020
- gravelly: no date set
- green belt: no date set
- greensand: 15 Dec 2017
- gremlin: no date set
- gunmetal: 12 Aug 2017
- habitual: 23 Feb 2020
- half-timbered: 4 Oct 2020
- hell-bent: set for 17 April 2021
- holier-than-thou: 4 Aug 2020
- honeydew: no date set
- horses for courses: 12 April 2018
- houndstooth: 2 Dec 2016
- houseboy: no date set
- iniquity: 27 Jan 2020
- invasive: no date set
- kaleidoscope: no date set
- kingmaker: no date set
- knacker's yard: 20 Oct 2019
- kyle: nominated for 30 Nov
- ladder: 3 Aug 2016
- lady-in-waiting: 22 Oct 2019
- learn the ropes: 26 Sept 2019
- ledger: 13 March 2019
- lengthman or lengthsman: no date set
- liken: no date set
- linocut: 23 June 2017
- listenership: 26 Oct 2020
- living fossil: 12 Feb 2019
- lorry: 22 Aug 2019
- manageable: 23 Oct 2019
- man-of-war: no date set
- many a mickle makes a muckle: no date set
- masterly: 9 Sept 2020
- mediterranean sea: 8 June 2020
- meld: no date set
- micropolitan: no date set
- midnight sun: 21 June 2017
- milecastle: no date set
- millstone: 28 Feb 2017
- mink: 25 July 2018
- misfield: no date set
- moccasin: 4 July 2018
- monkey business: no date set
- moss-grown: 22 April 2020
- move the goalposts: 14 June 2018
- murderous: set for 12 May 2021
- necessitate: 10 Sept 2018
- necropolis: 22 Aug 2020
- netball: 29 July 2020
- night owl: 3 March 2020
- nitty-gritty: 7 Nov 2020
- no one: 4 Nov 2020
- no strings attached: no date set
- nursery: 1 June 2020
- nut out: nominated for 25 April
- obituary: no date set
- obliterate: no date set
- octagon: 8 Oct 2020
- of one's own accord: no date set
- omnibus: 10 Nov 2017
- out of place: no date set
- paddock: no date set
- paint oneself into a corner: 18 April 2017
- pantechnicon: 7 Jan 2017
- parking ticket: 21 Oct 2016
- pastille: no date set
- pave the way: 22 July 2017
- pear-shaped or go pear-shaped: no date set
- pea-souper: 23 March 2021
- petty: no date set
- phial: no date set
- philistine
or Philistine: Philistine was WOTD, not accepted; philistine appeared 20 Sept 2020 after a 2nd nomination (not mine) - pike: 26 May 2018
- pipe dream: no date set
- planning permission: 6 Aug 2019
- plaque: 13 Dec 2018
- plat: 30 June 2019
- point-to-point: set for 17 May 2021
- porte cochère: no date set
- porterage: no date set
- pour cold water on: appeared as throw cold water on on 1 June 2017
- presumptive: no date set
- prince regent: no date set
- printer: 3 Feb 2018
- prior: no date set
- prognosis: no date set
- publican: no date set
- public purse: no date set
- Pullman: 19 Oct 2016
- pushbike: 29 Aug 2020
- rake: 10 Nov 2020
- rash: no date set
- receptacle: 29 Jan 2017
- receptive: no date set
- redress: 30 Jan 2017
- refusenik: no date set
- rejig: no date set
- retract: no date set
- retrofit: no date set
- revamp: no date set
- rocky: no date set
- roughage: no date set
- roughshod: 31 Jan 2017
- royal burgh: no date set
- rubbish: 5 June 2019
- rugby: no date set
- runholder: no date set
- rupee: 14 Aug 2017
- saddle: no date set
- safety valve: no date set
- sargasso: 24 Aug 2020
- saveloy: 16 Oct 2020
- scaffold: 23 Sept 2016
- scarecrow: no date set
- sea stack: 18 Nov 2020
- semaphore: 22 Feb 2020
- set out one's stall: no date set
- shelve: no date set
- ship in a bottle: no date set
- shipworm: no date set
- shire: no date set
- shore up: no date set
- short shrift: 23 Feb 2021
- shot across the bow: 5 July 2020
- signage: 29 Oct 2019
- silly season: 27 May 2017
- skew: 11 June 2020
- skulduggery: 19 March 2019
- sky: no date set
- slip-up: 13 May 2019
- smell a rat: 5 April 2017
- snap election: 15 Sept 2020
- snow shed: 4 Dec 2020
- sociolect: 17 July 2017
- spit: 7 Sept 2019
- spoils of war: 13 Nov 2016
- spoof: 3 June 2018
- spot of bother: 29 Sept 2018
- stampede: no date set
- stance: 25 Feb 2019
- stand trial: 17 July 2020
- steamer: 26 Aug 2017
- steam shovel: no date set
- stopgap: no date set
- strimmer: no date set
- stroke: no date set
- subglacial: no date set
- subspecies: 6 Oct 2017
- suburbia: no date set
- superspreader: nominated for 7 April
- suspension: 5 July 2017
- sweetness and light: no date set
- switchback: no date set
- syndicate: 28 Aug 2017
- take the shilling: no date set
- tall order: 19 July 2019
- tarantula: 29 March 2020
- tar with the same brush: no date set
- telemark: 3 Dec 2016
- terrapin: no date set
- thank: no date set
- thereabouts: no date set
- thinking cap: 14 March 2020
- thirteener: no date set
- torch: no date set
- townland: 28 Oct 2019
- trackbed: no date set
- tram: 22 May 2017
- transformative: set for 21 April 2021
- tui: 6 Feb 2021
- turd: 19 Nov 2016
- turntable: 19 Dec 2018
- twaddle: 16 May 2017
- unchecked: 25 Aug 2016
- under the weather: 18 May 2017
- unisex: no date set
- unpaid: 19 Jan 2017
- unparished: no date set
- unseat: no date set
- unused: 17 July 2016
- unwisdom: no date set
- up to something: 14 May 2019
- use a sledgehammer to crack a nut: no date set
- variety: no date set
- Victorian: no date set
- wagon: 27 March 2019
- washout: no date set
- waterworks: 25 Feb 2021
- weatherbound: 30 April 2016
- well and truly: no date set
- well-boat: 21 Nov 2019
- well-wisher: no date set
- where there is a will there is a way: 7 Nov 2019
- whilst: no date set
- wifelet: 16 Sept 2020
- wigwag: 2 Sept 2017
- willy-nilly: no date set
- wind farm: no date set
- witch doctor: 1 Oct 2019
- witching hour: no date set
- withdraw: no date set
- ytterbium: 24 April 2017
Images added - my own workEdit
Some of these aren't all that wonderful, and can be removed or changed of course.
A wee bit of nonsenseEdit
- Q: What is an escapea?
- A: A pea that escapes from the dinner plate.
- Q: When is a grey day grade A? - A: Never.
- Tall story is not the antonym of short story.
- If someone calls you a cheapskate, thank them for the compliment.
- Would you Adam and Eve it, they're naked! (inspired by Cockney rhyming slang)
- When running a check on Little River County I was asked "Did you mean little rivet counter?" Hmm...
Photo galleryEdit
Deleted module: labels["United States county index"] = {
− description = "{{{langname}}} index of counties in the United States of America.",
− parents = {{name = "United States of America", sort = "counties of the United States of America"}, "counties of the United States of America", "list of sets"},
− }
United States county indexEdit
This is a poor substitute for a deleted category which worked perfectly.