User:Ro Thorpe

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Nowadays I mostly copyedit random pages. I am also a Ro-bot who removes Incorrect or Unnecessary Capital Letters like These. Some people think that the names of currencies are properly capitalised. Why is this? 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.

Currently editing: English homophones

Starts: Astronomy: Canis Major, Ceres, Orion Nebula; Language: Apostrophe, Back-chaining, British English, Catalog of artworks known in English by a foreign title (replete with red links), Cyrillic alphabet, English alphabet, English spellings, English phonemes, Galician, Glottal stop, International Phonetic Alphabet, Italian, Minimal pair, Schwa, Spelling pronunciation; A, B, C (Use in English), D, E, F, G, GH, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z; Music: Bob Dylan, Domenico Scarlatti, Frederick Delius, Jean Sibelius, Kraftwerk, Leevi Madetoja, Ludwig van Beethoven, Miles Davis, Nico; Cover version, Rock music, Skiffle; Writing: Ivy Compton-Burnett, Marcel Proust; Places: Burma, Cyprus, Malta; Food: Leitão assado à Bairrada, Portuguese cod casserole, &c: Alan Odle, Arab, CDT, Deutsche Mark, En passant (chess), Universal Time; CZ:What's Your Message?: World Alphabetical Time

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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 de facto wife 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, including the 'replete with red links' list mentioned above.