User:Ro Thorpe

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Articles I started
English, using special accent pronunciation system: ; in lists ¤    ' (many thanks to Chris Day for the above objet d'art; to find out what 'retroalphabetical' means, coined by me in 1995,  please note, click on one of the blue squares)                                 ; General language:  ¤ Artworks known in English by a foreign title                ; Music:     ';           ; Novelists:   ; Places:   ; Food:   ; Chess:  ; Time:  ; Miscellaneous'':

Where I started
I was born in London in 1950. 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; 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. So, while I saw the obvious advantage of an unvandalisable alternative, I have never entirely shared the disillusionment (if not disgust) that many CZns feel for WP—though their diagnosis of its frailties is quite accurate.

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