"Nigel Algar" montana@dircon.co.uk
<mailto:montana@dircon.co.uk?Subject=%20Re%3A%20Cain%20and%20Thompson%20Question>
arcade47 <http://profiles.yahoo.com/arcade47>
> With all the confidence of not owning a single Orion edition, I doubt
> whether they differ in any way from the American originals, except
> perhaps in the spelling of such words as 'colour'. There is a presumed
> familiarity with American usage such as 'gas', 'sidewalk' etc that it
would
> seem very nannyish to adjust the text. As far as bowdlerising
(there's an
> English term for you) the text, those days are long past.
>
> So, no tweaking.
I don't have any Orion editions either, so I can't check; but I would
doubt that any publisher would go to the trouble (ie expense) of
"tweaking" a text to the extent of adding the missing "u" to words like
"colour" and "flavour" in order to assuage the sensibilities of the
delicate English audience.
ED
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