UK vs. US

[colebiancardi]

No: HPFGUIDX 170538

 
> Shelley:
> > It just astounds me that in the age of the Internet and Google
that we would
> > assume we would be ignorant of anything- geesh. Even British
words- they are
> > so easily looked up these days- frankly, I have been put off that
even a
> > word was changed between versions. I 
> 
> <snip>
> 
> Geoff:
> But don't forget that when JKR finally managed to get "Philosopher's
Stone" 
> published, it was in 1997. The Net was still making its way into the
collective 
> conscience here in the UK and the Goverment was still rabbiting on
about 
> "The Information Superhighway"....
>

colebiancardi:

1997 was not the dark ages in the US with the 'net.  I program for the
web, and have done so since 1994.  There were other search engines
besides google in the olden days, not to mention (OMG) real, books
called dictionaries.

at any rate, if one reads the book, you know what a philosopher's
stone is and most people, including children, look at the cover art
(magical) and read the back of the cover to get the general idea of
what the book is about.

again, the publishers messed it up. 

colebiancardi