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Originally Posted by AndrewH
For example, when all your characters are from English-speaking North America, they're not going to hand someone a serviette, but a napkin.
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Actually, English-speaking people in the eastern parts of Canada do in fact sometimes use serviette instead of napkin. This has to do with what Nancy Mitford, IIRC, called
U and non-U patterns of speech and word usage, and all those Ontario/Maritimes people are probably just carrying on the middle-class-at-best British vocab of their ancestors. I myself am on the opposite coast and rarely, but occasionally, hear it.
But aside from that, yeah, for all the supposed "timelessness" of the central story,
Ysabel's going to seem like a really dated period piece in a couple of years.