User:Ro Thorpe
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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, a habit which may stem from the names of music charts. 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.
Articles I started
Language: 
Apostrophe: in cluster; in lists 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) English verbs
Alphabet Back-chaining 
British and American English Catalog of artworks known in English by a foreign title Colon (punctuation) Commonwealth English Cyrillic alphabet English alphabet 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
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.