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Old 08-07-2022, 05:13 AM   #30900
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Originally Posted by issybird View Post
It's small comfort but there it is; British authors are as clueless as Americans when it comes to titles and correct usage. And it's not just that the authors are lazy, although that's certainly part of it; it's that they have been oblivious whenever they've run across it. Or in other words, it's sheer stupidity. Which earns a hard pass from me.
It works the other way round too. Authors have to account for their readers' ignorance: The Tiffany Problem
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