I was going to start a new thread but this is EXACTLY what I was wanting to discuss!

The word list that this thread refers to should be numbered 0 thru 2047.  Correct? 

That is why you say 1 would actually refer to ABILITY rather then ABANDON.

I am working on a project that will involve a printed copy of this mnemonic word list.  And I was thinking the numbering should be offset by 1 so that it was numbered beginning with ZERO and ending with 2047 = zoo.

Can anyone confirm this?  I'm doing final proofing on my project and I started scratching my head over the numbering.  Because I originally just took a copy of the word list and used it verbatim.  But I'm realizing it is numbered incorrectly.

I'm already 99.9 percent certain that I need to go back and revise my numbering but just wondered if anyone else had any opinions?

I DO want the number associated with the word to match up with the number being used by the BIP39 protocol when creating the addresses etc.  I understand the last word is a checksum in the mnemonic word list etc.  But I still think "Abandon" should be numbered 0 and not 1.  I'm not wrong in my thinking on this am I?  I'm surprised the word list got published like it did... but I guess their thinking was, it was a list of 2048 words and they numbered them accordingly.

Thanks for reading and any feed back you might have.  I'd like this printed list to be numbered in the appropriate manner and even though the list on github is numbered 1-2048 I'm thinking I should number mine 0-2047.

Kresp.