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Old 10-30-2011, 06:35 PM   #16
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.......The text of a book should never be changed by a publisher, as far as I'm concerned. I'm still upset that they changed the wording of "The Philosopher's Stone" to "The Sorcerer's Stone" for the first Harry Potter book, for the US market.
Or. indeed music - the infamous Stones' "Let's Spend the Evening Together..."
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Old 10-31-2011, 07:58 AM   #17
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I am wondering if there is an ebook store that sells books with canadian spelling. Or a store that sells ebooks with UK spelling and allows canadians to buy them.
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Canada. America's hat.

If you change the spelling, is that considered a translation?
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Old 10-31-2011, 10:24 AM   #18
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Canadian spelling, eh? How about text to speech with Canadian accent, eh? Oh, oh, you can get Canadian spelling in the French language section.
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Old 10-31-2011, 10:41 AM   #19
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Canadians ought to just stop their whining and be happy with the spelling their betters provided.
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Old 10-31-2011, 11:13 AM   #20
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Canadian spelling, eh? How about text to speech with Canadian accent, eh? Oh, oh, you can get Canadian spelling in the French language section.
Just so you know: Canadians do not put "eh" on the end of every sentence. In fact when I tried it once talking to a friend in a public place someone came up and accused me of being an American! interesting eh?
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Old 10-31-2011, 11:17 AM   #21
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Canadians ought to just stop their whining and be happy with the spelling their betters provided.
So Canadians should just use the spelling your country uses? Convenient that. I tell you what. I will stop whining about spelling when Canadians start getting thing at the same time as Americans instead of having to wait months or years! For example google voice.
P.S. I am not trying to start an argument about things like google voice just trying to show that Americans only think were the same as them when it is convenient!
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Old 10-31-2011, 11:18 AM   #22
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Old 10-31-2011, 12:40 PM   #23
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I never know flutist is also spelled flautist in Canada and UK.
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Old 10-31-2011, 01:03 PM   #24
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I never know flutist is also spelled flautist in Canada and UK.
I never knew that flautist was also spelled flutist in the US.
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Old 10-31-2011, 01:08 PM   #25
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Aren't you just splitting hairs ?
I thought Canadian English was closer to US English, don't tell me you don't say color or neighbor ?
And while we're at it, do you guys use kilometers or miles ? measure heat in C° or F° ? and are you 1.70m tall or 5'7" ?
I constantly bounce around with color/colour, neighbor/neighbour, armor/armour, etc. but most of the time, I do add the 'U', and it's usually more popular in Canada to add U and use S instead of Z from my experience.

As for measurements, it's a mess in Canada. While most of the time both the metric units and imperial units are listed, for usage, it's mostly (again, in my experience):

Speed and distance are in kilometers/meters, drinks and liquid in general are in liters, and food is in grams/kilograms, height is feet and inches, a house is square feet, electronics are measured in inches...
Outside temperature is in Celsius, but cooking is mostly in Fahrenheit.

It's not easy being Canadian.
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At least here in Canada we didn't need to have Harry Potter translated.
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So Canadians should just use the spelling your country uses? Convenient that. I tell you what. I will stop whining about spelling when Canadians start getting thing at the same time as Americans instead of having to wait months or years! For example google voice.
P.S. I am not trying to start an argument about things like google voice just trying to show that Americans only think were the same as them when it is convenient!
we never really think you're the same...even if we pretend to.
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At least here in Canada we didn't need to have Harry Potter translated.
I honestly don't think the average American does either. Just some guy at a publisher somewhere needed it!
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Any way can I assume from the responses that no one knows the answer to my original question? I just don't see why I cant just by ebooks from a UK bookstore! If its fine for me to order actual books then whats the problem for ebooks? And really, how many people would choose to buy from a UK bookstore? I don't believe it would be enough to put US publishers out of business!
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Any way can I assume from the responses that no one knows the answer to my original question? I just don't see why I cant just by ebooks from a UK bookstore! If its fine for me to order actual books then whats the problem for ebooks? And really, how many people would choose to buy from a UK bookstore? I don't believe it would be enough to put US publishers out of business!
it probably has more to do with international trade requirements, taxes, yada, than anything else. distribution rights probably play into it also.
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