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

that should be corrected by now.. thanks for all this help Cloviscat!

4 days gone, Z, 3 to go - - remember?

I know by now! still you know what they say out of sight is out of mind and I realised i'd been doing so much scouting this afternoon that I'd pushed this out of sight well to those who don't wander amongst the backlog!

Fine entry, Z. I'm always happy to see new entries on northern English towns, even if this one is about a place on the wrong side of the Pennines.

Just one bit puzzled me slightly: 'Leaving Skelmersdale by car is easy, you take the m58 then the M6.' Why do you particularly recommend this route? There must be plenty of ways out of Skelmersdale, surely?

Oh yes I suspose there are but I was thinking that anywhere a distance away is going to involve going on the motorway. I'll reword this later today.

I've made the nesscerary changes now, and added a little more about the challenge of leaving skelmersdale!

Hi Z!

Spelling help. (not sure I've got them all, though)

amougst > amongst
villiage > village
industary > industry
eigth > eight
hidously > hideously
colliary > colliery
Newtowns > New Towns
Opermistically > Optimisticly (gosh - that looks wrong to me as well)
redevelopement > redevelopment
communties > communities
destoryed > destroyed
newcomers > newcomers'
distictly > distinctly
compleatly > completely (several times)
librarian's > librarians
denyed > denied
houseing > housing
Goldern > Golden
authourity > authority
severed > served (this one was funny in context!)
skelmersdale > Skelmersdale
entierly > entirely
unfortunatly > unfortunately
industrail > industrial
pracitce > practice
movenment > movement
accomdation> accomodation
members > members'
Ayru Vedic > Ayurvedic
proffestonal > professional
Skelemersdale > Skelmersdale
area's > areas
Counil > Council
relativly > relatively
econimical > economical
liverpool .. manchester > Liverpool .. Manchester
Governement > Government
houseing (several times)
cinamea > cinema
fromed > formed
polictal > political
playing > player
Uk > UK
Russells > Russell's
choosen > chosen
it's > its
headquatures > headquarters

Thanks ZSF they're all fixed now! that must have taken ages to notice them all!

You're welcome, Z.

I had to write them all down. It's the sort of thing I'm good at - Virgo, you see!

Oops, missed one:

refered > referred



At least it's early on.

a lot that's fixed now as well!

Found a couple more in the bit "Getting to Skelmersdale":

First para: "...which is on the West Coast Main Line..." (original text has "...one the...". Also, I've always seen the WCML with caps on all four words.

Second para: Skelmersdale needs to be capitalized. There are also come punctuation marks that could be added to clarify the first sentence a bit.

Fix these and I think we have something that can be recommended.

Must say, I think it's recommendable *with* typos!

Your Guide Entry has just been picked from Peer Review by one of our Scouts, and is now heading off into the Editorial Process, which ends with publication in the Edited Guide. We've therefore moved this Review Conversation out of Peer Review and to the entry itself.

If you'd like to know what happens now, check out the page on 'What Happens after your Entry has been Recommended?' at EditedGuide-Process. We hope this explains everything.

Thanks for contributing to the Edited Guide!

I thought this entry was good interesting (and well written) enough, to recommend this for the edited guide, so I did, and as you can see, it has been accepted. Well done z!

Glad to see this get in. Probably too late, but you may want to include the fact that Skelmersdale's fortunes took a dive after the town's biggest employer, Courtauld's, closed their mill in the 1970's. The site is now used by Matalan. Courtaulds opened the mill with the help of large government grants, but when they dried up they moved out.

I just wanted to add my congratulations. A fine entry, and a very worthy addition to the Edited Guide!

to everyone, I think it's too late to alter the entry now isn't it? though I'd love to. I take it you're from the area yourself The Third Man?

Sort of. I'm from Liverpool. Which is where most Skemmo's parents or grandparents are from. Tho' the majority of Skem speak with a Scouse accent