Canadian version

[Aurora Mendelsohn]

No: HPFGUIDX 30741

Karen wrote
> > This idea of changing words in the books is also
> > rather puzzling when
> > you consider that we Canadians get the British text
> > of the books, when
> > we're probably more lexiconally (if that's even
> > appoximating something
> > that might be a word :->) like Americans.  I mean,
>
SNIP
> > I personally watch a lot of the British shows that
> > PBS and TVO carry, so
> > I can't remember any terms in the books that I
> > didn't know, or at least
> > weren't obvious from the context, but I doubt that
> > most other Canadians
> > are the same way.  I mean, I understood the British
> > terms, but I've
> > almost never heard another Canuck using them in
> > everyday speech!  Did
> > any of the other Canadians on here find themselves
> > scratching their
> > heads at some of the terms?

I read both versions. No head scratching  here.
 I am a Canadian  who has been livinginthe US for the past 6 years
and I am married to an American. When I arrived I thought much like Karen. But my years here 
my conversations with my husband have led me to think otherwise. For example,
my husband got confused when I called hot cereal porridge ( something only eaten in fairy tales
 by bears according to him), when tea refers to some food that goes along with the beverage, when I use
the word cupboard.....etc, etc.
I think in Canada we are far more exposed to Britishism than we think.

But on the whole, I didn't find the changes too jarring either way.
A quick trip over to the lexicon  and I'll list phrase my husband says  (SOME) Americans would
have trouble with , but most Canadians probably wouldn't
roundabout, mummy (for mother), post for mail, holiday for vacation,
fortnight,   go to the loo

The only benifit of the British version, is that it might help remind me more continually that the story is set in Britan,
but that wasn't much of a problem either

Aurora