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Originally Posted by Sirtel
The book I'm reading has quite a lot of errors. Some are obviously OCR errors, but not all - like several instances of "I could care less" where they should be "I couldn't care less".
No, it's not self-published. It's a well-known author from a major publisher (Tor). There was apparently even an editor, according to the copyright page. I wonder if he was asleep or drunk on the job?
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It's a well-known, longstanding and significant difference between Nth American English and variants more aligned with British English. There are YouTube videos now several years old mocking the US vaersion of the idiom, and it has been discussed often over the last decade or more on various linguistics blogs I follow.
It feels wrong to me, but I try to remind my self that by their definition idioms (and indeed languages in general) are not bound by "logic"