User:Dieter Simon

I was born in Eisenach, Thüringen (Thuringia) in Germany but have lived in the UK for over fifty years. I am a Graduate in German Language and Literature (Birkbeck College, London Uni) and am still attending seminars and lectures. My main interests are Languages, Etymology, History and the study of Words in general. Further hobbies are Gardening and Walking, as well as caring about and observing trees and plants.

Entries originated so far are:

• Purley
• Addington Palace
• Croydon Airport
• RAF Kenley
• Blast pen
• Cabinet-style council

• Teichoscopy
• Theatre technique
• Advertising slogan

• Eisenach, my hometown
• Wartburg Castle
• Landgrave, margrave, burgrave, altgrave, rhinegrave, count

• Tudorbethan
• Jacobethan

• Cholesteatoma
• Ossicles
• Malleus
• Incus
• Fenestra ovalis
• Stapes
• floater
• Opposable thumb

• Grammatical particle
• Modal particle
• Uninflected word
• Pseudo-anglicism
• Function word
• closed class word
• open class word

• Coppicing
• Pollarding
• Lea

• Firth (description and listing the Scottish firths)