[Release] The Thirty-Nine Steps, by John Buchan

[Alex Cabal]

This ebook was produced by David Grigg. Thanks David!

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GitHub URL:
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[Robin Whittleton]

Love the cover art!

Will read this next, only ever listened to it as a radio play.

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[Jeff Thoss]

Hi,

I´d like to suggest a couple of (editorial) corrections:

Chapter 1

Prince von und Zu Something -> Prince von und zu Something

von und zu is a nobiliary particle; no part of it is capitalized in German. As the phrase isn't in M-W, I also think it should be italicized. The transcription is right: "Prince von und zu Something". The scans have a different erroneous capitalization: "Prince von Und zu Something".

Chapter 8

Sous-chef d'état Major-General -> sous-chef d’état-major général

The transcription has Sous-chef d’État Major-General, the scans have Sous-chef d’Etat Major General. They are both wrong. Capitalization is debatable, but for the rest my suggestion has the correct French spelling (cf. https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C3%A9tat-major under "Dérivés").

Best,

Jeff

[Alex Cabal]

Thanks! I'll apply both but leave the capitalization for #2.

On 4/28/25 9:22 AM, Jeff Thoss wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I´d like to suggest a couple of (editorial) corrections:
>
>
> Chapter 1
>

> Prince von und Zu Something -> Prince /von und zu /Something
> /
> /
> /von und zu /is a nobiliary particle; no part of it is capitalized in

> German. As the phrase isn't in M-W, I also think it should be

> italicized. The transcription is right: "Prince /von und zu /Something".
> The scans have a different erroneous capitalization: "Prince /von Und
> zu/ Something".
>
>
>
>
> Chapter 8
>
> /Sous-chef d'état Major-General /-> /sous-chef d//’//état-major général/
>
> The transcription has /Sous-chef d’État Major-General/, the scans have /
> Sous-chef d’Etat Major General./ They are both wrong. Capitalization is

> debatable, but for the rest my suggestion has the correct French
> spelling (cf. https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C3%A9tat-major under
> "Dérivés").
>
> Best,
> Jeff
>
>
> On Wednesday, 3 January 2018 at 02:23:18 UTC+1 Alex Cabal wrote:
>
> This ebook was produced by David Grigg. Thanks David!
>
> Ebook URL:
> https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/john-buchan/the-thirty-nine-steps
> <https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/john-buchan/the-thirty-nine-steps>
>
> GitHub URL:
> https://github.com/standardebooks/john-buchan_the-thirty-nine-steps

> <https://github.com/standardebooks/john-buchan_the-thirty-nine-steps>
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