User:Rothorpe
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Articles created: BBC3 (programme), Bernard van Dieren, Gerald Cross, List of artworks known in English by a foreign title, Mezzo TV (from French version), Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life, Terry Stafford, Timothy Birdsall.
Edited: Music: Anita O'Day, Bill Black, Booker Ervin, Brook Benton, Bruce & Terry, Captain Beefheart, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Charles Mingus, Charlie Parker, Chuck Berry, Connie Francis, Connie Stevens, Cornelius Cardew, Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespie, Don Gibson, Frederick Delius, Gary U.S. Bonds, Georges Bizet, Hank Jones, Hector Berlioz, Henri Duparc, Henry Wood, Ian Dury, Inez and Charlie Foxx, Jeff Buckley, Jimmy Reed, Joe Strummer, John D. Loudermilk, John Lewis (pianist), Joseph Haydn, Keith Godchaux, Larry Adler, Leevi Madetoja, Lennie Tristano, Luís de Freitas Branco, Maria João Pires, Milt Jackson, Octet (music), Peter Warlock, Richie Barrett, Roberto Gerhard, Roy Orbison, Sergei Prokofiev, Sonny Fortune, Syd Barrett, Tommy Tucker, Vera Lynn, Zoltán Kodály.
Writing: Albert Camus, Denton Welch, E. E. Cummings, Edward Albee, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Jens Peter Jacobsen, Luigi Pirandello, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Satires of Juvenal, Stevie Smith, Thomas Love Peacock, William Golding, William Shakespeare.
Television and film: Alan Partridge, Arthur Howard, Claude Rains, David Frost, Diegesis, Dora Bryan, Eamonn Andrews, Garry Halliday, John Le Mesurier, Joan Hickson, June Whitfield, Malcolm Muggeridge, Marcel Marceau, Nighty Night, Raymond Burr, Terence Alexander, That Was The Week That Was, Warren Mitchell.
Language: English Language, Galician Language, Latin conjugation, Spelling, Spoonerism.
Politics: Adorno (family), Carnation Revolution, Chiang Kai Shek, F.W. de Klerk, Joseph Stalin, Konrad Adenauer, Maria de Lurdes Pintasilgo, Morgan Tsvangerai, Nelson Mandela.
Art: Edgar Degas, Eugenio Granell, Jelka Rosen, Paul Signac, Piet Mondrian, René Magritte.
Sport: Anil Kumble, Bhagwat Chandrasekhar, Justine Henin, Michaela Tabb, Monty Panesar, Peter Willey, Wes Hall.
Astronomy: Asterism, Ceres (dwarf planet), Piscis Austrinus.
Record Labels: Big Top Records, Catalog numbering systems for single records, Regal Zonophone Records, Reprise Records, Stateside Records.
Miscellaneous: Canasta, Cats, China, Epicurus, Hanging, drawing and quartering, History of cats, John Harrison, Ruth Ellis, Solitaire, Welcome to Wikipedia.
Rothorpe = Ro(bert) Thorpe, EFL teacher from London, living in Portugal, formerly also in France, Italy and Germany. My unpublished 60,000-word Pronouncing Spelling - Not the International Phonetic Alphabet uses a sophisticated accent system to show pronunciation: ‘Wikipedia, the online self-styled ‘free encyclopaedia that anyone can edit’, is an excellent thing, but it exhibits an inevitable and jarring juxtaposition. Immaculate use of the International Phonetic Alphabet in many entries exists alongside amateurish and ambiguous efforts to show pronunciation in others. This is not surprising, because most people see no reason to learn the IPA. They may be interested in pronunciation, but they are not linguists. This, and the fact that the IPA takes no account of whether a spelling is regular, bizarre, or in-between, highlights the need that English has for a standard system of easily-typed accents using actual spelling. This purpose of this study is to introduce one, and to uncover the facts of spelling in the process…’
'Man does not experience death.' - Arthur Schopenhauer.
'Examinations are questions asked by the foolish which the wise cannot answer.' - Oscar Wilde.
'The trivial makes work for idle hands.' - me.
