Thread: What detail of which book ruined it for you?
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Old 06-13-2008, 11:15 AM   #51
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Originally Posted by GeoffC View Post
What really makes me judder when reading through a book, is spelling mistakes...talk about something to bring you back to reality very quickly - especially annoying when one is really 'deep' into the story...
(by spelling mistakes, I occasionally include the US insistence on missing 'u' out of ceratin words)...
Do you know why English words will have that u, but American ones won't? It's because you share an island with Gaelic. You have all these extra vowels, and they have to go somewhere.
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