[HPforGrownups] Re: Teeth, braces, and the English Language or variations thereof.

[June Ewing]

No: HPFGUIDX 190391

> Geoff:
> Going back to the original quote in GoF which June supplied, it
> was:
>
>>> '(Hermione speaking) "Mum and Dad won't be too pleased. I've
been trying to persuade them to let me shrink them for ages, but
they wanted me to carry on with my brace."'
> (GOF "The Yule Ball" p.353 UK edition)

> Bart:
> Has anybody pointed out that in the U.S. edition, the term
> "braces" is used?


June:
I may have missed it but I do not think anyone did point that out.
I myself am in Canada so I get the same version as England. I caught
on right away that brace and braces is the same thing. In Canada we
also say braces but if I remember right my English grandmother
referred to my braces as a brace.