[TAG] English->American dictionary

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 10:47:21AM -0700, mso at oz.net wrote:
> I didn't follow this thread, but there was a story a few weeks ago about a
> Canadian author who was unhappy that the US edition of her book had all
> the cultural references replaced with American equivalents.  Clubs the
> characters belonged to, foods they ate, etc.

And, conversely, the Punctuation Book has an author's note in the front
in the Murrican edition explaining that it had purposefully *not* been
de-Britted at all; cope.

Cheers,
-- jra
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