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Originally Posted by GrannyGrump
A label pasted on the book page covers several letters along the left margin. I have extrapolated most, but the last line defeats me. Due to margin width, there can't be more than two or three characters missing, but I cannot figure out that word.
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I hate when this happens. An otherwise perfectly good scan gets ruined by a page or two with bad margins.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
I really can't think of anything except "flaming" that it could be! As you say, there are very few words that fit the letter pattern. Given that they appear to be talking about Valentine's cards, "flaming picture" would seem to fit the context.
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I agree with "a flaming".
I went looking through a word list for the "aming" pattern. There were 33 words returned:
- beaming
- blaming
- coaming
- creaming
- daydreaming
- defaming
- diagraming
- dreaming
- flaming
- foaming
- framing
- gaming
- gleaming
- gloaming
- inflaming
- laming
- mainstreaming
- misnaming
- naming
- nicknaming
- programing
- reaming
- renaming
- reprograming
- roaming
- salaaming
- screaming
- seaming
- shaming
- steaming
- streaming
- taming
- teaming
Only a handful of these make sense (and fit the length of the missing characters):
- beaming
- defaming
- flaming
- shaming
I can only see "flaming" as matching that "d" looking shape (definitely think that is the "fl" ligature).
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Originally Posted by GrannyGrump
I can't find any word that would fill in "a {space}{missing}daming", even if I still think that partial character is a "d". There ain't no such word, dame it!
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As a worst case scenario, it could really be a typo that just so happened to be right at that exact section of the book. Maybe they misspelled "damning" as "daming".
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Originally Posted by GrannyGrump
Curses on Otto Breiting of Pennsylvania, whoever he may have been! {book vandalizer! heathen! scum of the earth! navel lint!}
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Yep, that is what I think every time I see markings/underlinings/destruction in the scans. Causes lots of trouble for me when I am trying to OCR the book!
