American publishers often "translate" British spellings into American ones. However I have read enough British books with the original spellings that I know most of them. However I recently tried to read an indie book by a Brit that was so thick with working class terms that I had trouble getting through it. If a book is set in England or Australia I expect it to sound like it, but if an English or Australian author sets a book in America, I would expect American spellings.
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