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Jan 25, 2022 at 18:25 history edited bobble
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Dec 15, 2021 at 18:12 vote accept Pavel Orekhov
Dec 14, 2021 at 15:31 answer added Spagirl timeline score: 3
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Mar 6, 2019 at 17:53 comment added Pavel Orekhov @Spagirl I am referring to the google book you provided just to be clear.
Mar 6, 2019 at 17:44 comment added Pavel Orekhov @Spagirl this is not a full book, you can only see a subset of pages, like 50 pages out of 500 (or however many there are). The one I am reading is printed by orionbooks.co.uk
Mar 6, 2019 at 17:20 comment added Spagirl This version which appears to be the Hachette UK edition, returns no results for 'favorite' and only shows returns spelled 'colour' if you search for 'color' (though it returns fewer 'colour's when you search for 'color' than it does when you search for 'colour', so there is obviously something screwy going on. Can you check some of your numerous examples against that edition and see if it is the same as yours?.
Mar 5, 2019 at 15:54 comment added Spagirl Is there any distinction between where in the text US and UK spellings are used? I could just about imagine a rationale for speech being in US spelling and narrative in UK spelling.
Mar 5, 2019 at 6:36 comment added Pavel Orekhov @user14111 interesting! Thank you! And yeah, on the back cover of the book there's a price in pounds, so I guess it's a British version.
Mar 5, 2019 at 6:33 comment added user14111 If you look at the pages in the front of the book you are likely to find some indication of where, when, and by whom it was published and printed. There are no strict rules about what to change for British or American readers, those are editorial decisions. They might well change cookies to biscuits etc. When Harry Potter was translated from British to American, they changed philosopher to sorcerer, although Americans don't really call philosophers sorcerers.
Mar 5, 2019 at 5:48 comment added Pavel Orekhov @user14111 the book doesn't say which edition it is. Thanks for your reply. And what is a British edition anyways, say an American author writes a book, do they translate pickle to gherkin and cookie to biscuit?
Mar 5, 2019 at 1:16 comment added user14111 Authors aren't usually responsible for the spelling in their books, that's the business of publishers and editors. Was it a British edition? Sounds like the editors who changed the spelling from American to British were a little slipshod. And it's not just American authors who can't spell. Shakespeare, a British author, was a famously inconsistent speller, but that was before consistency in spelling became fashionable.
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