User:Ro Thorpe

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Use in English
Alphabetical word list
Retroalphabetical list
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 often capitalise them, from jazz to jungle. Some people capitalise the names of currencies, probably because many of them 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.

And did you know, in English, the apostrophe is a letter? Leave it out, and you have a spelling mistake.

Articles I started

Language:  Alphabet  Apostrophe (cluster); Apostrophe (lists)  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

Music:  Cover version  Mezzo TV  Rock music  Skiffle

Musicians:  Bob Dylan  Domenico Scarlatti  Frederick Delius  Howlin' Wolf  Jean Sibelius  Kraftwerk Leevi Madetoja  Ludwig van Beethoven  Miles Davis  Nico

Novelists:  Franz Kafka  Ivy Compton-Burnett  Marcel Proust

Places:  Burma  Cyprus  Malta

Food:  Crisps  Leitão assado à Bairrada  Portuguese cod casserole (bacalhau à Gomes de Sá)

Chess:  Chess960  En passant

Time:  CDT  Universal Time

Miscellaneous:  Alan Odle  Arab  Ceres Daniel C. Dennett  Deutsche Mark  Michael Holding  One & Other

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; Mondovì, Italy; London, England, and finally in various locations in Portugal.

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