| 186
| was marked 185 + (now changed), metal tag "CUCC 186", 1997
diff --git a/handbook/leader.htm b/handbook/leader.htm
index d60b35e19..b4609c8b5 100644
--- a/handbook/leader.htm
+++ b/handbook/leader.htm
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ but a rather different emphasis)
- Get some people interested ! Don't intimidate your novices by making
them think that expo is compulsory and hard, but do hold it up as one of
-the main aims of the club and well worth getting competant for. A few expo
+the main aims of the club and well worth getting competent for. A few expo
pictures in any squash presentation are always worth while.
- Start motivating your core of experienced cavers by New Year - you
will need to start assigning jobs to people by then, and an idea of the
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ have met the old lags before expo.
There should be nothing left to the last minute (ho ho !).
But unless you are an amazing organiser with unbelievably cooperative
-expo members of exceptional competance and self-reliance, there will be
+expo members of exceptional competence and self-reliance, there will be
a panic for the last couple of weeks at least.
@@ -207,11 +207,11 @@ be there next year.
trip (zero if trip failed to happen).
- Log Book - get people to write trips up as soon as possible. If passage
names are decided later, go back and write them in, as it makes the log a
-lot more useable. Standards of logbook writing have been a little poor lately;
+lot more usable. Standards of logbook writing have been a little poor lately;
there are certain repeat offenders who should be strongly encouraged to write
stuff in.
- Survey calibration - make sure people do it, or at least record which
-intruments they used.
+instruments they used.
- Survey book - as soon as surveyors are at base camp, get this written
up - don't let anyone go home without writing up their survey!!!
- Photos - make sure some are taken, preferably underground in new finds.
diff --git a/handbook/look4.htm b/handbook/look4.htm
index e6861f548..759353f74 100644
--- a/handbook/look4.htm
+++ b/handbook/look4.htm
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ their system.
invested effort, CUCC now applies its own unique number to each new cave,
ideally at the time of discovery, using a rock anchor and a tag which can be
replaced when an 'official' number tag is available. As of 2000, the standard
-practice has been to allocate inital numbers of the form "year-nn", e.g.
+practice has been to allocate initial numbers of the form "year-nn", e.g.
2003-01. This means that the cave can be identified when refound, even if
no-one who knew where it was came out in subsequent years. Clearly, a good
surface location is also pretty essential.
diff --git a/handbook/meteo.htm b/handbook/meteo.htm
index 8529c302d..af5d6795c 100644
--- a/handbook/meteo.htm
+++ b/handbook/meteo.htm
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ tried).
But for an up to the minute (maybe) idea of the weather right now,
try the Loser
WebCam - giving a current view of Loser from somewhere near the bottom of
-the skilifts - or (slightly further away but usually better photos - caution!
+the ski-lifts - or (slightly further away but usually better photos - caution!
These could induce an irresistible desire to drop everything and travel to
Austria immediately!) the Grundlsee Photo of the
diff --git a/handbook/photo.htm b/handbook/photo.htm
index a8ee6203b..7961bffb7 100644
--- a/handbook/photo.htm
+++ b/handbook/photo.htm
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ detail that was never really visible in slide shows.
Quite a bit of "notebook" photography has been done with a video camera
and digitiser card. This is a handy way of getting quick pictures of
-entrances and aproach routes (and much cheaper than Photo-CD, if you have the
+entrances and approach routes (and much cheaper than Photo-CD, if you have the
equipment), but the quality leaves a certain amount to be desired (it would
be improved by a slightly less cheapo video digitiser). Some pictures are
also here courtesy of video of postcard-sized prints.
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ pausing for one or two more attempts. Exit, apparently after total failure.
In fact, the second photographer, who hasn't had his gear out of its ammo
can since his previous expedition photographic trip three years earlier, does
-turn out to have a few useable shots.
+turn out to have a few usable shots.
This is probably how not to do it, though it does illustrate the
problems. Can anybody write something more positive?
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ cavers whose faces appear on the photo.
- Do use a tripod - the heavier the better for photography, but worse
for caving with. Tiny pocket tripods are great for allowing cameras
-topple off boulders and into the all-prevading mud, but crap for getting
+topple off boulders and into the all-pervading mud, but crap for getting
your eye anywhere near the viewfinder.
- Do use slaves. I don't mean people who will take orders (though they
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ moving when the flash fires, otherwise they look awkward and off-balance.
- Photography rarely combines well with exploration - the trip just gets
slowed up too much with both bolting and photography and everyone gets cold.
However, quick snapshots at pitch heads or at the exits from crawls can
-work if the photographer is fairly well practiced. Similarly, photography
+work if the photographer is fairly well practised. Similarly, photography
doesn't combine well with surveying, as both activities are slow-moving and
result in lots of people generating great clouds of steam.
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