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===[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rothorpe Wikipediana]===
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I was just becoming an enthusiast for [[Wikipedia]] when I stumbled across its article on Citizendium. While I saw the obvious advantage of an unvandalisable alternative, I am still not a disaffected Wikipedian, 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...
I was just becoming an enthusiast for [[Wikipedia]] when I stumbled across its article on Citizendium. While I saw the obvious advantage of an unvandalisable alternative, I am still not a disaffected Wikipedian, despite its frailties: unreliability and the consequent tyranny of the reliable source, the ever present danger of clique rule, sudden wholesale rewriting that one can only shrug one's shoulders at...


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Revision as of 07:51, 2 February 2014

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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Use in English
Alphabetical word list
Retroalphabetical list  
Common misspellings  

  • 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: Developing Article Apostrophe: in cluster; in lists Developed Article British and American English ¤ English irregular nouns Developing Article English irregular verbs Developing Article English phonemes Developing Article 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, Stub OED please note, click on one of the blue squares) Stub English verbs Developing Article French words in English Developed Article Hyphen Developed Article Silent and invisible letters in English Developing Article Spelling pronunciation Developing Article A Developing Article B Developed Article C Developing Article D Stub E Developing Article F Developing Article G Developing Article GH Developing Article H Stub I Developing Article J Developing Article K Developing Article L Developing Article M Developing Article N Stub Ñ Developing Article O Developing Article P Developing Article Q Developing Article R Developing Article S Developing Article T Developing Article U Developing Article V Developing Article W Developing Article X Stub Y Developing Article Z; General language: Developing Article Alphabet ¤ Artworks known in English by a foreign title Developing Article Back-chaining Stub Colon (punctuation) Stub Commonwealth English Stub Cyrillic alphabet Developing Article English alphabet Stub Galician Developing Article Glottal stop Stub Homophone Developing Article International Phonetic Alphabet Stub Italian Stub Minimal pair Stub Nynorsk Stub Okina Stub Persian Stub Principal parts (verb) Stub Schwa; Music: Developing Article Cover version Stub Mezzo TV Stub Rock music Stub Skiffle Stub Instant Karma; Stub Bob Dylan Stub Captain Beefheart Stub Domenico Scarlatti Stub Frederick Delius Developing Article Howlin' Wolf Stub Jean Sibelius Stub Kraftwerk Leevi Madetoja Stub Ludwig van Beethoven Stub Miles Davis Stub Nico; Novelists: Stub Franz Kafka Stub Ivy Compton-Burnett Developing Article Marcel Proust; Places: Stub Burma Stub Cyprus Stub Malta; Food: Stub Crisps Developing Article Leitão assado à Bairrada Developing Article Portuguese cod casserole (bacalhau à Gomes de Sá); Chess: Stub Chess960 Stub En passant; Time: Stub CDT Stub Universal Time; Cricket: Stub Ashes 2013 Stub Michael Holding; Miscellaneous: Stub Alan Odle Stub Arab Stub Ceres Stub Conchita Martinez Daniel C. Dennett ¤ Stub Deutschmark Stub 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. While I saw the obvious advantage of an unvandalisable alternative, I am still not a disaffected Wikipedian, despite its frailties: unreliability and the consequent tyranny of the reliable source, the ever present danger of clique rule, sudden wholesale rewriting that one can only shrug one's shoulders at...


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