In meatspace, I am a linguist who specializes in language variation and sociophonetics. I believe the knowledge academics produce should be accessible, and so try to combat FUTON bias by contributing using information that may be holed up behind a paywall or in dusty, old dead trees. If you need access to offline sources to verify my citations or improve an article you're working on, consider asking at the resource exchange or feel free to ask me directly.

• Black American Sign Language
• Heffernan v. City of Paterson
• Electromagnetic articulography
• Linguistic Society of America ( Version before first edit | diff )
• Santosky v. Kramer
• Phonetics ( Version before first edit | diff )
• Sociophonetics
• Template:Interactive COVID-19 maps
• McGruff the Crime Dog ( Version before first edit | diff )
• Board of Education of the Hendrick Hudson Central School District v. Rowley ( Version before first edit | diff )
• Taking stock of the GA Backlog (Special Report in The Signpost)
• India Walton (with others)
• Homobiles (with DanCherek)

See User:Wugapodes/Drafts for a more complete list

Low back merger (Sandbox)

• Phonetics (Sandbox)
• Functional load (Sandbox)
• Articulatory phonology (Sandbox)
• Source–filter model (Sandbox)

See User:Wugapodes/Essays for a more complete list

• User:Wugapodes/The Back Rooms
• User:Wugapodes/Encouraging small edits improves recruitment and retention
  • For the public facing implementation see User:Wugapodes/Linguistics quick start
• User:Wugapodes/RFA trend lines
• User:Wugapodes/Better as a redlink
• User:Wugapodes/Getting access to offline sources
• Wikipedia:Non-sysop closures
• User:Wugapodes/One giant navbox
  • For the serious recommendation, see User:Izno/Navbox constellations

• User:Wugapodes/Capricorn – A javascript tool for editing and categorizing redirects I forked from User:Sam Sailor
• User:Wugapodes/Add tools links – A help page for adding custom links to your sidebar
• User:Wugapodes/RefactorUBX – A userbox I use on this page
• mw:Extension:ChessBrowser – A MediaWiki tag extension for turning portable game notation into interactive chess content

Userboxapodes Wikiprojects This user is a participant in WikiProject Linguistics. This user is a participant in WikiProject Deaf. This user is a participant in WikiProject Feminism. This user is a participant in WikiProject U.S. Supreme Court cases. This user shares at the Resource Exchange. This user is a participant in WikiProject History Merge. Editing philosophy This user is a wikiarchaeologist and strongly supports keeping history. RTP This Wikipedian recognizes the downside of threads and wants you to refactor their comments if it simplifies discussion. About me This user is interested in open access to research literature. This user identifies as queer. This user uses free software wherever and whenever possible. About my computer This user contributes using Debian GNU/Linux. This user contributes with the KDE desktop environment. This user contributes using Mozilla Firefox. Babel (Languages) en This user is a native speaker of the English language. ipa ə This user has a native-like understanding of the International Phonetic Alphabet. de-2 Dieser Benutzer hat fortgeschrittene Deutschkenntnisse. ase-2 This user can communicate at an intermediate level in American Sign Language. This user is an administrator on the English Wikipedia. (verify) This user holds checkuser and oversight privileges on the English Wikipedia. (verify) This user has alternative accounts named WugBot, WugapodesOutreach.

Some people like grass; I prefer my lawn covered in a random collection of things I find cool.

A wug is a fictional bird-like creature made up by Dr. Jean Berko Gleason to test when children learn English morphology. She would show a child a card that read "Look, there's a wug" that also showed a picture of one wug. Then she would show a picture of two wugs with the caption "Look, now there are two of them! There are two ____?". The child should respond "wugs" if they know how to pluralize normally in English. Wugapodes is a joke plural based on a rare plural form of octopus, octopodes; the joke being that, instead of the child learning to make plurals with -s, they learned to make it with -podes.

Many people ask me how to pronounce it: you don't.

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