Thread: What trips you up when reading books from different English-speaking countries?
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Old 01-13-2022, 08:38 AM   #44
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"Shined" instead of "shone" always trips me up and dumps me out of the story. Ditto, an author dropping double consonants - gravely and gravelly do NOT mean the same thing and why should I have to guess meaning from context.
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