HBP US / UK Differences

[jlnbtr]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Joe Bento" <joseph at k...> 
wrote:
> Tim:
> 
> > > I think they are missing one, though I do not have the 
American 
> > edition
> > > to hand to check this. In the British edition we get:
> > > 
> > > "Fifty points from Gryffindor for lateness, I think," said 
Snape.
> > > 
> > > While in the American (from memory) it says:
> > > 
> > > "Fifty points from Gryffindor for tardiness, I think," said 
> Snape.
> 
> > Juli: 
> 
> >what's exactly the difference between those 2 lines?
> 
> Me again:  
> 
> Nothing, actually.  Tardiness and lateness are synonyms as far as 
> I'm concerned.  It would seem to be an odd edit, as I've heard 
both 
> words used in the US.
> 
> Joe

Juli again: I read those lines over and over and I didn't see the 
tardiness/lateness difference, how dumb of me!