I was going to let this one go, but what the heck; I'm on a roll.
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Originally Posted by issybird
Using "high tea" to describe afternoon tea. It's worse in a British author who really should know better (as in my current read), but whatever the nationality it shows that someone didn't do his research/isn't all that familiar with the situation he's writing about.
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I persevered, but at the point where a public school, Cambridge scholar made a basic error in grammar of the "for Harry and I" type in the dialogue, I was done. Not only was the pain extreme, I could only imagine the offenses still to occur further along.
My frequent plaint is that kids aren't taught grammar anymore, and they aren't, but as noted above, the author's (even) older than I am!