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This might be chauvinistic since I live in the US but I suspect that a book written purely for British or Australian readers might be difficult for US readers to understand without translation. Possibly vice versa but the 'exporting' of US movies & TV shows would, I think, make a book written for US readers not too difficult to understand by British/Australian. I'm talking about words like lorry, bonnet, binders (for cars), queue (or loading cargo), and things like that. Knock somebody up has a totally different meaning in Britain than it does in the US. (Some of this might be obsolete but then it's been a long time & I'm probably out of touch by now. Maybe out of my mind.)
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