The Urantia Book – New Enhanced Edition

Review: The bivalve gastropods...embrace the mussels, clams, oysters, and scallops Adopted: Muscles was an acceptable variant at the time of the writing of The Urantia Book (Webster’s, 1934), but the form is now so uncommon for this meaning that the modern form mussels has been adopted. 59:4.18 (680.2) 1955 text: one of the longest periods of marine-life evolution, the age of fishes

Review: one of the longest periods of marine-life evolution, the age of fishes Adopted: The article the removed from italics. The subject sentence is the only one of three such constructions (the age of ferns and the age of frogs) in which the is italicized. 60:3.8 (689.7) 1955 text: 85,000,000 years ago Bering Strait closed

Review:85,000,000 years ago the Bering Strait closed Adopted: Even though the usage was correct when The Urantia Book was written, it is now so unfamiliar that the insertion of the is justified. 60:3.20 (691.1) 1955 text: But some time previously there had appeared

Review: But sometime previously there had appeared Adopted: The closed form is correct as the reference is to an indefinite point in time rather than to an indefinite period of time. 61:0.2 (693.2) 1955 text: during this sector of time the Panama Isthmus went up

Review: during this sector of time the Panama isthmus went up

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1955 text: three times Bering Strait land bridge did the same

Review: three times the Bering Strait land bridge did the same Adopted: Capitalization is used for the formal name of a geographical feature, but not otherwise.

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Adopted: Even though the usage was correct when The Urantia Book was written, it is now so unfamiliar that the insertion of the is justified. 61:3.4 (696.8) 1955 text: Bering Strait land bridge was up

Review: The Bering Strait land bridge was up Adopted: Even though the usage was correct when The Urantia Book was written, it is now so unfamiliar that the insertion of The is justified. 61:3.13 (697.8) 1955 text: Weasels, martins, otters, and raccoons

Review: Weasels, martens, otters, and raccoons Adopted: Even if originally correct, this usage of martins is no longer current, and the modernization of the spelling is justified. 61:7.5 (701.4) 1955 text: reached south to cover most of the State of Iowa

Review: reached south to cover most of the state of Iowa

Adopted: Capitalization removed from State. 61:7.18 (702.8) 1955 text: corresponding to the beginning of the Holocene or postglacial period

Review: corresponding to the beginning of the Holocene or postglacial period Adopted: All other geologic periods are italicized; including Pleistocene and Cenozoic on this same page. 69:3.9 (774.8) 1955 text: the flint flakers and stonemasons

Review: the flint flakers and stone masons Adopted: The original stonemasons is a valid form, but of nine occurrences in the text this is the only instance in which the compound form is found. The spelling has been standardized to the open form. 74:2.8 (830.3) 1955 text: The dispensation of the Prince has passed, the age of Adam

Review: The dispensation of the Prince has passed; the age of Adam Adopted: The initial clause is a complete sentence; a semicolon is the correct way of linking the two parts of the larger sentence. 76:2.3 (848.3) 1955 text: In the days of the first Eden Adam had indeed

Review: In the days of the first Eden, Adam had indeed Adopted: The comma after Eden appropriately separates the initial adverbial phrase from the remainder of the sentence. 77:3.1 (858.2) 1955 text: the plan of Bablot, a descendant of Nod, was indorsed

Review: the plan of Bablot, a descendant of Nod, was endorsed Adopted: In light of the current obsolescence of the original indorsed, the modern form endorsed is justified. 77:3.4 (858.5) 1955 text: Three differing views were propounded as to the purpose of building the tower.

Review: Three differing views were propounded as to the purpose of building the tower: Adopted: This sentence clearly introduces the following list, so the colon is appropriate. 77:7.6 (863.7) 1955 text: And they brought to Him all sorts of sick peoples