Thread: Where can I buy ebook with canadian spelling?
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Old 11-01-2011, 10:40 AM   #44
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^^Ummm. In the first case, it should have been you are or you're and not your and it didn't work fine with what you were trying to say. I think you are treading on the line at which people are just going to label one as a crackpot and potentially a troll.

I don't really understand the problem bob123. Do you want every book to have Canadian spelling even if the book is not written by a Canadian or set in Canada? That makes no sense to me. It could even be inconsiderate of an author's intentions. Now, if it is just in the case where a book has had its original content changed from Canadian or British to an American-friendly version then I completely agree. It is nice to be able to get the original work as the author intended it.
Okay can we get over my spelling? I NEVER claimed to be a good speller! And I don't see why me having bad spelling (I actually think its better than a lot of peoples) reflects this discussion at all.

I shall now clarify what I want: I want books to just be left in the spelling of the Author. The Author should choose and it should just be done one way for all English speaking places. I would think that the Author would usually choose the spelling of their country. However I am fine if a Canadian Author is writing a book set in the USA and thinks American spelling would make more sense.
What made me make this thread was when I was reading a book by a UK Author set in England and it used American spelling!
What annoys me even more is I have found several UK sites that sell it with the UK spelling (I think even kobo does) but I am not allowed to by it!
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