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Originally Posted by Bilbo1967
I agree with that. Of course, I usually notice it the other way round. As in the example of a US author setting scenes in the UK and talking about 'blocks' (as in, 'He walked the two blocks to the police station').
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The worst example I can think of is in the opening few pages of Sandstorm by James Rollins, where the author talks about a lightning strike hitting overhead power cables in Bloomsbury, causing the British Museum to go dark.
In Britain we prefer to bury our cables underground, and then spend the rest of the year digging the roads up for minor repairs, resurfacing the roads, and then digging them up again almost before the tarmac has a chance to dry.
The one thing I miss now that I have a Kindle is the pleasure I used to get from hurling a badly written book across the room as far and as hard as I could. I find hitting 'delete' doesn't have quite the same cathartic release for me.