User:Ro Thorpe

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Common misspellings

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Ro-bot

removes Incorrect or Unnecessary Capital Letters like These. Proper capitalisation is important to distinguish the general from the particular: the Earth goes round the Sun, and if there's too much sun the earth dries out and develops cracks.

Fans of different types of music, from jazz to jungle, often capitalise them, as if equating them with their performers, apparently to lend them importance. Some people think that the names of currencies are capitalised. This is probably because they often sound like proper nouns: franc, for example, or mark. Of course those two have now (almost) vacated the scene in favour of the equally capitalised-sounding euro.

Articles I started (but didn't finish): Language: Alphabet, Apostrophe, Back-chaining, British and American English, Catalog of artworks known in English by a foreign title, Colon (punctuation), Commonwealth English, Cyrillic alphabet, English alphabet, English irregular nouns, English irregular verbs, English phonemes, English spellings (many thanks to Chris Day for the objet d'art at the top of the page; to find out what 'retroalphabetical' means, coined by me in 1995, OED please note, click on one of the blue squares), French words in English, Galician, Glottal stop, Homophone, Hyphen, International Phonetic Alphabet, Italian, Minimal pair, Nynorsk, Okina, Persian, Schwa, Silent letters in English, Spelling pronunciation; A, B, D, E, F, G, GH, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z, English spellings/Catalogs/Apostrophe; Music: Bob Dylan, Domenico Scarlatti, Frederick Delius, Howlin' Wolf, Jean Sibelius, Kraftwerk, Leevi Madetoja, Ludwig van Beethoven, Miles Davis, Nico; Cover version, Rock music, Skiffle; Mezzo TV; Novelists: Ivy Compton-Burnett, Marcel Proust; Places: Burma, Cyprus, Malta; Food: Crisps, Leitão assado à Bairrada, Portuguese cod casserole (bacalhau à Gomes de Sá); &c: Alan Odle, Arab, CDT, Ceres, Daniel C. Dennett, Deutsche Mark, En passant (chess), Michael Holding, One & Other, Universal Time; CZ:What's Your Message?: World Alphabetical Time; User:Ro Thorpe/Spelling reform

Thorperson

Robert Thorpe, born in London in 1950, living in Esposende, Portugal. I have a degree in English from Peterhouse, Cambridge. For many years I worked as a teacher of the language, in Mâcon, France (at a lycée agricole); Mondovì, Italy; Beckenham, England; and finally in various locations in Portugal, where my girlfriend is a primary school teacher. I can translate from the relevant languages as well as from Spanish, German and Latin.

I came across Citizendium when I looked in Wikipedia for the latter's history. There, I still do copyediting, and I created a number of articles.