User:Ro Thorpe

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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.

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Language: ; Apostrophe (lists)            (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,  please note, click on one of the blue squares)

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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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