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

A few more:

P.27 Not an Approved Entry

P.27 Nowadays, both

P.28 conservation; by this

P.28 notation, but

P.30 emphasis, or character

P.30 succeeds it, but

P.30 repertoire; when

P.30 new: a counter-culture.

P.31 after Bach, counterpoint

P.31 after Beethoven,

P.31 anything else... but

P.33 oversimplification,

P.34 florist's

P.34 bench, Baleesha

P.36 hand, you stupid

P.37 properly... Ravager

P.37 morning... Who’s

P.38 future, is

P.38 didn’t, he’d

P.38 believe me, he’s

P.38 tears’. For

P.38 wrong... laughter

P.38 great. He

P.38 uncle. He

P.42 cupful

P.45

P.45

P.46 desert was effectively over.

P.48

P.49

P.49

P.49

P.49

P.50

P.51

P.52

P.52

This is great, RE. I'll print what's here when I get back on the 15th or 16th or so and work my way through. It shouldn't take long.

I see no reason for not publishing it on Towel Day.

http://www.towelday.org/

How cool would that be?

B

Pretty cool!

Meanwhile...

P.53 wife; something

P.53 hand, talking

P.53 teens, I

P.53 18th-Century heroine

P.57 <'till> till (and after all we've been through )

P.60 from Quebec.’

P.65 Not the Approved Entry

P.65 heels, great

P.65 lost, however,

P.65 than stilettos.>

P.71 Not the Approved Entry

P.72 <‘iElvis karaoke tournament’> ‘Elvis karaoke tournament’ (There is a book entitled 'I, Elvis', but that's hardly surprising)

P.75 about it.’

P.75 for this.'

P.75 workroom

P.75 in the workroom?

P.77 Not the Approved Entry

P.77 carried out only

P.77 out, and

P.78 8th-Century scroll

P.79 10th-Century letter

P.79 8th-Century conversion

P.79 12th-Century scholar

General points:

1. appears countless times - not though in one case where 'The Years of Billy Joel’s We Didn’t Start the Fire: 1962' (P.45) is shown to have been "*edited* by Mu Beta". All the Approved Entries show "Edited by: XXXXX" and not sub-edited by...

2. 'English Usage in Approved Entries' doesn't specifically mention the house style for speeds, though it does for measurements: "there shouldn't be any spaces between figures and measurements thus: 7cm not 7 cm, 47km not 47 km." So, I've suggested losing the space between 172 and mph for example.

3. You probably realise by now that I'm no expert at this . Someone with a firmer grasp of the niceties of punctuation would most likely have thrown in a few more commas - my view is that, provided there is no apparent ambiguity... why bother? Life's too short.


Anyway, to continue:

P.86 Not the Approved Entry

P.87 Initially, Rick thought

P.95 <(480 km)> (480km)

P.95 and space'.

P.95 I'm saying.'

P.96 Earth’; perhaps

P.101 Declawing Cats .......(I thought we'd fixed these)

P.101 declawed

P.101 declawing

P.101 regrowth

P.102 regrowth

P.102 so they rely

P.102 Declawed

P.102 Declaw

P.103 declawing

P.103 include:

P.103 Declawing

P.103 declawed

P.103 rehome

P.103 problems, and

P.106 only 21lbs.

P.106 <(172 mph).> (172mph).

P.107 195mph.

P.108 200lb sled

P.108 scuba-diver searches

P.108 some time> sometime

P.109

Thanks, RE.

I'll be picking these up from Monday 16th onwards and will want to get them done and dusted by the end of that week, so if any other proofreaders want to do any checking, then please do it this week.



B

On we go:

P.112 In 1907, Gustav

P.112

P.114 hand, was

P.118 skinful

P.124

P.130 algebra, and

P.132 prior to publication.

P.135

P.135

P.135

P.135

P.135 However, his

P.136 Should be updated: in 2008 a prime number of over 12.9 million digits was found.

P.137 well known

P.139 refreezes

P.143 130-year round trip

P.143 months, Brighton

P.144

P.144 6mph

P.144 2ft

P.145

P.145 2ft 8½ inches

P.146 40ft

P.146 45ft by 22ft

P.146 gas-driven generator

P.146 seagoing vessel

P.146 seagoing captain>

P.146

P.146 MPs), Pioneer

P.147

P.147 reopening on

P.147

P.147 reopening precluded

P.148 In 1930, redevelopment

P.149

P.149

P.149

P.149 facelift

P.150 and preserving

P.151

P.151

P.152 6:00pm

P.152 twenty-five-foot-high

P.152

P.153

P.156 In the UK, an orange

P.156 In the USA, the same

P.156 ask; do not just

P.156 tell them, and

P.156 they are, now they are

P.157 stairs, you

P.157 helping, and

P.157 space, you

P.157 door, tell

P.157 onto

P.159 scale pan

P.162 Eggshell [There are 'Cuckoos'and 'cuckoos' in this entry]

P.162 ladies-only tutorial.

P.162 of eggshell mimicry.

P.164 side effects

P.164 is this: If you

P.166 years, the nation

P.166 roller coaster

P.167 <set-piece set piece

P.169

P.170 free kick

P.170 number seven

P.172

P.173 free kick

P.181 no doubt

P.183 21st-Century scientific

P.184 halfway

P.188 Academy, and

P.188 nonconformist

P.193 flying boat

P.198 11:00pm

P.198

P.199

P.200 <'Your time is up.'> 'Your time is up'.

P.202 even-handed

P.202 20th-Century history

P.203

P.204 although he escaped

P.205 rearrested

P.205

P.207

P.207

P.207

P.207

P.207 still there in 2011>

P.208 withdrew his nomination papers only 13 minutes

P.208

P.209 success, the

P.209

P.210 Sands was

P.210

P.212

P.213 Not the Approved Entry

P.214 readjust

P.214 'Phil, we’ve got miles to go today'.

P.215 subsisted on

P.217 Not italicised in Approved Entry

P.222

P.223 <‘once-in-250 year event’> ‘once-in-250-year event’

P.224 8ft (2.5m)

P.225 <(2.4 km)> (2.4km)

P.226 45sq miles (116.5sq km)

P.226 <£7.5 m> £7.5 milliom

P.226 Saltwater lakes

P.227 1.5m surge

P.227 1.5m storm

P.228

P.232

P.233 'The Christchurch Earthquake' You may not wish to interfere with this Journal Entry conversation, but just in case:

P.233 <(30 km> (30km

P.234 <(30 km> (30km

P.234 planeloads

P.234 TV

P.235 10m long and 20cm high

P.237

P.237 Video opens with Copyright Notice - I'm not sure if that is significant.

P.238 and recover

P.238 10km deep and 10km

P.238

P.239 business owners

You're getting there RE.

I'll have an updating binge when I'm back from the meet and send out the latest version.

Cheers

B

Hi, Ben! I hope you enjoyed the meet.

Sorry to add to your burden, but on checking back to Posts 316 & 318,
I found the following are still outstanding:

P.164 downsize

P.167 stand up if

P.180 might be seen

P.187 tea lady

P.189 Royal Academy, and

P.197 Touring for years

P.206 crossbar

P.207 prisoners were depriving themselves

P.218 ice-cream cone

P.220 cause that research

P.227 preventing a repeat

P.234 Well, here we go again

P.236 effect that

P.237 12-hour day


Till later.