Adult UK Version of Harry Potter

[Joe]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "P. Alexis Nguyen" 
<alexisnguyen at ...> wrote:
>
> > I have seen the cover on mugglenet.com for the UK
> > adult version of book 7 but I can't seem to find it anywhere to 
order
> > it! And, I'm not even sure if I need to, is there anything 
different in
> > the adult version? Also, if I do want to order it, is there
> > anywhere in the U.S. to purchase it?
> >
> > beebo8177
> 
> 
> There's usually not a whole lot of differences between US & UK
> versions, but since DH is still pretty new, I guess that might or
> might not true.
> 
> If you do want to buy a UK copy, though, I recommend chapters.ca or
> amazon.co.uk for your purposes.  Since Canada is closer, I'm 
thinking
> that the shipping charges won't be as hefty as ordering from
> amazon.co.uk or another Brit spot. :)
> 
> ~Ali
>

I thought I read that in the early HP books Scholastic replaced most 
of the Briticisms that they thought American's wouldn't get with 
more American phrases (pity, that), but that in the last few books 
they left most of the Briticisms in. I did notice that in DH they 
mentioned the Sorcerer's Stone which was called the Philosopher's 
Stone in all editions but the American ones (and is called that 
historically). I guess Scholastic thought they would confuse US 
readers if they mentioned the Stone by it's true name rather than 
the marketing one they came up with for the first book.

Joe