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Originally Posted by issybird
The words that the author wrote should be sacrosanct.
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But they aren't - books get edited all the time, and frequently because word usages change. Eg, look at the edition of Josephine Tey's book "The Man in the Queue" in the MR library and you'll find a chapter in it called "The Levantine". Most modern editions have that wording. But look at the book as it was originally published and you'll find that the chapter is called "The Dago", and no, the modern editions don't tell you it's been changed.
Publishers constantly change books, and they don't tell the reader. That's the way the world is.