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Originally Posted by HarryT
It's also an entirely normal part of the editorial process. Editors have always changed spelling and punctuation. Look at a dozen published versions of Austen or Dickens, and you'll find amongst them probably at least 3 or 4 different variants of spelling, hyphenation and punctuation.
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Agreed. We've never had any real assurances that we're reading the authors' "original" manuscripts verbatim.