Notes on the transcription of Tottie Thorburn's diary
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Transcriber: Jen Saunders
ADDITIONS[sic] in italics - added by transcriber and refer to anomalies in the typed and original versions.
[sic] not italicised - already in typed version.
[notes in blue = added comments and information by Helen Macgregor]
GRAMMAR ETC
Often no ‘s’ is included on words that should be plural, eg: ‘Mary pictures,’ ‘Jessie things.’
Small words like ‘be’ left out.
‘&’ often replaces ‘as’ and ‘an’
Inverted commas “ “ often not closed.
SPELLING
Some words are consistently spelled incorrectly, for example: priviledge, profatable, Kangeroo, cosy, loose (for lose), dissappation or dissapation, rememberance, parlor, dout (for doubt), intelectual, advise (for advice), Lindburn/Linburn (for Lynburn), umberallas, comming (for coming).
Other words occur with different spellings throughout, for example: quoir (for choir), Byerline (for William Bauerlin), live (for life), farwell (for farewell), ever (for every), they (for their and there), fouls (for fowls), too/to, of/off, their/there, Mr Blackmore/Blackmoor, Brenan (for Brennan), ministery, soverigns (for sovereigns), wollen (for woolen), doctered (for doctored), practise/practice, for/from, Barnett/Barnet,
Words are shortened and apostrophes are generally in unusual places, for example: did’nt, ca’nt, tho (for though).
* The transcriber hasn’t drawn attention to all spelling anomalies as there would be too many [sic]’s interfering with the look of the document.
DATES
Dates are sometimes incorrect but haven’t been changed or noted as there would be too many [sic]’s.
