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Old 10-21-2015, 09:31 AM   #14
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see for example http://home.comcast.net/~helenajole/Harry.html which gives a textual comparison between "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" (UK edition) and "Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone" (US edition)
One other example from this, just for the sake of entertainment:

UK: Dudley had a tantrum because his knickerbocker glory wasn't big enough...

US: Dudley had a tantrum because his knickerbocker glory didn't have enough ice cream on top...

Presumably the concept of anyone serving a not-big-enough knickerbocker glory in the US just did not compute...
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