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Originally Posted by Luke King
Yes, but I wonder how common it has been for Americans to see variant spellings before the advent of ebooks. I would imagine, as the US is such a large market, that print books have always appeared in American English regardless of where they were written.
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That's a good point. I recall there was another thread recently about the English translation of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" (which is a British English translation, even in the US), and someone complained about the use of the word "gaol" (which is an alternate British spelling of "jail").