User:Ro Thorpe
Click on the red row of the grid to see the letter articles:
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- The accents show stress and pronunciation (see English spellings): A: sát, mâde, pàrk, cāst (cást/càst), åll, ãir; E: ére, êar, vèin, fërn; I: sít, mîne, skì, bïrd; O: sóng, môde, lòve, wörd, ŏr; OO: moôn, foòt; U: sún, mûse, fùll, pürr; W: neŵ, ẁant; Y: gým, mŷ, keỳ, mÿrrh.
Articles I started
English, using pronunciation system shown above: 
Apostrophe: in cluster; in lists 
British and American English ¤ English irregular nouns English irregular verbs English phonemes English spellings (incorporating English pronunciation; many thanks to Chris Day for the above objet d'art; to find out what 'retroalphabetical' means, coined by me in 1995, 
OED please note, click on one of the blue squares) English verbs French words in English Hyphen Silent and invisible letters in English Spelling pronunciation A B C D E F G GH H I J K L M N Ñ O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z; General language: Alphabet ¤ Artworks known in English by a foreign title Back-chaining Colon (punctuation) Commonwealth English Cyrillic alphabet English alphabet Galician Glottal stop Homophone International Phonetic Alphabet Italian Minimal pair Nynorsk Okina Persian Principal parts (verb) Schwa; Music: Cover version Mezzo TV Rock music Skiffle Instant Karma; Bob Dylan Captain Beefheart 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; Cricket: Ashes 2013 Michael Holding; Miscellaneous: Alan Odle Arab Ceres Conchita Martinez Daniel C. Dennett ¤ Deutschmark One & Other
Where I started
I was born in London in 1950 and have a degree in English (Peterhouse, Cambridge). For many years I worked as a teacher of the language, in Mâcon, France; Mondovì, Italy; Beckenham, England; and finally in various locations in Portugal; I am now retired in Esposende.
Wikipediana
I was just becoming an enthusiast for Wikipedia when I stumbled across its article on Citizendium. And, while I saw the obvious advantage of an unvandalisable alternative, I am not a disaffected Wikipedian, and have never shared the disgust that some CZns feel for WP—despite its frailties (unreliability and the consequent tyranny of the reliable source, the ever-present danger of clique rule, the sudden wholesale rewriting of articles that one can only shrug one's shoulders at...)
>CZ:What's Your Message?/World Alphabetical Time