Editing literature to conform to current custom

[catlady_de_los_angeles]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "ssk7882" <skelkins at a...> wrote:

> Amanda wrote:
> 
> > But I must throw to you my personal least-favorite 
> > literature change, from the Just So Stories by Kipling, 
> > from "How the Leopard Got His Spots." 
> 
> > This alteration offends me because it changes the words the 
> > author chose.
> 
> One thing to keep in mind about "Just So Stories" is that
> it is a children's book.  It was written for children (as
> well as for adults), and it is read by children (as well as
> by adults).  Many of the currently available editions of 
> this book are marketted specifically for children.

Some novel about a highschool teacher has her assigning on essay on 
the poem (Emily Dickinson?) "There is no frigate like a book", except 
she changes it to "steamship" to spare herself an hour of students 
giggling over "frig it" puns.