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Lislchen · 12-01-2007, 09:09 PM

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Originally Posted by carola9146

This led to criticism by many readers. The New York Times ran an article titled "Harry Potter, Minus a Certain Flavour" on July 10, 2000, which heavily criticised Scholastic's decision to Americanise the US Harry Potter editions.

But I think this is quite unfair. I mean, they've got their own spelling, so why shouldn't they use it? I don't think a lot of Americans would read books which contain a lot of "shall"s and "shan't"s!

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Lislchen Quintaped Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Stalkingland [GMT+1] Posts: 29,584 Hogwarts RPG Name: Lewis D. Rasting Sixth Year x3 x2 Ministry RPG Name: Alysson Zookara Magical Law Enforcement Diagon Alley Employee: Nancy Tamesis Quality Quidditch Supplies Shopkeeper	The Kisapaths \| Sila!Roti \| Lisa's Housewife TouchableHair \| ToiletPaperGuy \| QueenOfConfusion Quote: Originally Posted by carola9146 This led to criticism by many readers. The New York Times ran an article titled "Harry Potter, Minus a Certain Flavour" on July 10, 2000, which heavily criticised Scholastic's decision to Americanise the US Harry Potter editions. But I think this is quite unfair. I mean, they've got their own spelling, so why shouldn't they use it? I don't think a lot of Americans would read books which contain a lot of "shall"s and "shan't"s!