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Old 11-22-2025, 06:08 PM   #18
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Originally Posted by issybird View Post
There’s editing and there’s editing. If the US edition has been edited to change the quotes, replace the “s”s with “z”s and get rid of those extraneous “u”s, then I’m indifferent. It’s when the text has been dumbed down for the US audience that I mind. A lot.
Yes, I can cope with USA vs UK spelling and punctuation. Other changes are crazy.
Also they delight in changing the UK title for USA market, but rarely vice versa.
Sometimes change the title in the SAME market. Yes, been caught out on that.

I have managed on one occasion to buy the exact same paper edition in the same bookshop! Out of coffee error?
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