Val McDermid wrote on Dorothy-L that her books were
(slightly) edited
for her American publisher, and that she'd be handling the
corrections
herself. The examples she gave weren't as blatant as the ones
you did,
but I feel that her Mancunian slang is part of the charm of
her books.
Laurent
____
"When you're slapped, you'll take and like it"
Humphrey Bogart in The Maltese Falcon,
from Hardboiled by P. Thompson & S. Usukawa.
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