h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

It can't be picked unless it is at least seven days old, m'dear. But you can bet your life someone has got their beady eye on it.

Yeah, I know it can't be picked yet I was whistling while I waited for Gn to read it

A decoction of oil of tansy may cure your excessive commas!

I'd remove all the commas in the following:

country, no longer
to the colonies, took
interest in, and knowledge of herbal usage, declined

Typos:

2000 years ago --> 2,000 years ago
passed on the the British --> passed on to the British
town within within the country --> towns within the country
refridgeration --> refrigeration

Choice of words:

"outwith" is an unusual word which is not in my dictionary. I suggest you change it to "outside of"

Thanks Gn

Commas *runs off to collect tansy oil*

I'll get onto commas and typos later today.

'outwith' is a good Scottish word in common use. I've used it in other Guide Entries

Six Fb

Does it count as "British English", then?

James Naughtie on the Today programme on R4 thinks it does

And it's in the Oxford English Dictionary

Good enough????

I won't get into a fight between the Scots and the English as to what is correct British English.

Chicken

Typos and commas fixed

Any more for any more?

Homer's Odyssey which was probably written in about 900 BC, has a good quote about growing medicinal herbs in Egypt.

"Egypt, where the plough-lands excel other plough-lands of earth in bearing abundance of medecines: of which some when compounded are healing and others baneful"

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