User:Ro Thorpe

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Ro-bot 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: French words in English/Catalogs, British and American English, English spellings

Needs attention: Chess

Originated: Language: Alphabet, Apostrophe, Back-chaining, British and American English, Catalog of artworks known in English by a foreign title (replete with red links), Commonwealth English, Cyrillic alphabet, English alphabet, English irregular nouns, English irregular verbs, English spellings, English phonemes, French words in English, Galician, Glottal stop, Homophone, International Phonetic Alphabet, Italian, Minimal pair, Persian, Schwa, 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: Bob Dylan, Domenico Scarlatti, Frederick Delius, 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: 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, Universal Time; CZ:What's Your Message?: World Alphabetical Time; User:Ro Thorpe/Spelling reform

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Robert Lindsay 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.