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Originally Posted by Luke King
Australians are pretty used to reading American English. I don't know about these days, because I don't buy paperbacks anymore, but a lot of the second hand books I have from the seventies and eighties are in American English.
Basically, apart from books published in Australia, they either come from the UK or the States, and we've grown used to seeing American spelling. As an Australian author it's something I've been debating (with ebooks). Should I use Australian spelling or American spelling, when two thirds of my audience are Americans?
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Just speaking from experience, I prefer to read books with the spelling/grammar/language use that is typical of the location of the story. I read a fair amount of novels that take place in the UK (a few in Australia), and I like to read them with UK spelling and dialect. The trouble is, I tend to speak like that for a while after reading the book.
