Good morning! My name is Stephen. I have a PhD in Russian literature and I currently teach Russian at the Defense Language Institute. I joined Wikipedia on April 12, 2004, and I am also active on the Russian, French, and Latin Wikipedias. My interests here include the history and literature of Europe, along with linguistics and music. I am also a literary translator: my English version of Alexander Veltman's The Wanderer, a whimsical 19th-century "journey through a map" of the Russian and Ottoman borderlands, was published by Northwestern University Press in 2025.
Le roi fronça le sourcil, regarda la signature du placet et vit le nom écrit ainsi: Lesgle. Cette orthographe peu bonapartiste toucha le roi et il commença à sourire. Sire, reprit l'homme au placet, j'ai pour ancêtre un valet de chiens, surnommé Lesgueules. Ce surnom a fait mon nom. Je m'appelle Lesgueules, par contraction Lesgle, et par corruption L'Aigle. — Ceci fit que le roi acheva son sourire. – Victor Hugo, Les Misérables, III.4.1.
The first time I used this name, I inadvertently added an s, and that spelling has stuck. Either way, it is pronounced [lɛgl].
