Index talk:Tales of the Dead.djvu

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Notes from the original proofreading[edit]

  • Missing words ("at [the] sight of a stranger" [p.8]; "so [as] to arrange matters" [p.15]; "illumined [a] great part of the room" [p.81]; "at [the] sight of him" [p.246])
  • Missing punctuation (comma [pp.69, 78]; quotation marks [pp.73, 102]; hyphen [p.136])
  • Unclear printing (full stop [pp.67, 147, 175]; hyphen [p.99])
  • Additional punctuation (closing bracket [p.89])
  • Spelling mistakes ("extaordinary" [p.153]; "scarely" [p.176])
  • Unusual spellings ("cieling" [p.108])
  • Possible typos ("revolving" instead of "revolting" [p.186])
  • Mixed spellings ("Sofa" [p.8] / "Sopha" [p.184]; "dénouement" [p.26] / "denouement" [pp.50, 112, 146]; "mean while" [pp.66, 104, 112] / "meanwhile" [pp.16, 18, 23, 108, 110, 150, 172, 202, 231]; "connexion" [p.100] / "connection" & "connections" [pp.26, 29, 124, 142, 174, 176]; "intreated" [p.106] / "entreated" [pp.7, 8, 24, 78, 112, 119, 141, 143, 167, 172, 242]; "chafing-dish" [p.110] / "chaffing-dish" [p.115]; "Wezer" [p.205] / "Weser" [p.227, 230, 245]; "in-/closed" [p.237] / "enclosed" & "enclose" [p.65, 80, 147])
  • Mixed hyphenation ("over-heated" [p.24] / "overheated" [pp.82, 145, 207, 220]; "laid-out" [p.31] / "laid out" [p.238]; "staircase" [p.79] / "stair-case" [p.190]; "beforehand" [p.89] / "before-hand" [p.147]; "re-animated" [p.139] / "reanimated" [p.213]; "well-/known" [p.140] / "well known" [pp.i, ii, 130, 138]; "left hand" [p.165] / "left-hand" [p.203]; "room-door" [p.170] / "room door" [p.191]; "ever-attentive" [p.185] / "ever attentive" [p.245])
  • Unclear hyphenation ("out-/stripped" [p.19]; "re-/kindled" [p.34]; "prayer-/book" [p.67]; "draw-/back" [p.123]; "sang-/froid" [p.175]; "re-/pay" [p.213])
  • Irregular hyphenation ("linden trees" [pp.21, 31] / "apple-tree" & "rose-trees" [p.237])

--xensyriaT 19:07, 14 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]