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Old 02-20-2023, 05:24 AM   #1014
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That "pull at a thread" kind of a niggle when you read an anachronism in the wrong direction: A book I'm reading was first written in 2019, and set then, but includes this around the 37% mark from an English DCI character:

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Tom looked surprised. “She’s at Magdalen? I was at Trinity. We don’t get many American undergraduates at Oxford.”

I tried to ignore it, but after a few more similarly anachronistic depictions of the UK's 'otherness' from the US by the protagonist (a history graduate), I checked the Oxford website and sure enough the 'foreign' country with the largest number of undergrads there is the US. Maybe I should cut the author some slack since it's her debut, but it's not filling me with an urge to read her next.
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