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Originally Posted by HarryT
Some of these differences seem a little arbitrary. What on Earth is the point of changing "shan't" to "won't", for example?  |
And some of it's flatly bizarre. IIRC, in a list of desserts, the word "jelly" was changed to Jello, but treacle (a word unknown to many Yanks) remained. And "Mom" from an English kid! That's so very, very wrong; it grated every. single. time. Good thing Lily was dead, so we didn't have to hear it too often. At least in later translations, they left that one alone.