I love my wife!

[thewayne]

I have, for pretty much as long as Harry Potter appeared in print, wanted a copy of the British version: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. I've always thought that the Sorcerer's Stone was an incredible wimp-out for American audiences.

This morning I got it!

Russ ordered season 2 of Stargate: Atlantis (edit: From Amazon.UK) and got me a copy of HPatPS!

I'm a happy man.

(I know it's not going to be significantly different than HPatSS, but it's the thought that counts.)

Comments

[annaonthemoon.livejournal.com]

It's fun to read. There are several slight differences in language used, beyond just "sorcerer" for "philosopher", but I can't remember off the top of my head.

[thedragonweaver.livejournal.com]

I know that Ron's Mum knits Harry a jumper— that latter term is one that I approve of being changed for American audiences, because that would just put the wrong mental image in people's heads.

I remember when I heard about "Sorcerer's Stone" that I was annoyed because I *knew* the properties of the Philosopher's Stone and thought that Rowling was trying to slip one past the uneducated public. Then I found out that it was the publishers trying to slip one past the uneducated Americans, and got annoyed in a different direction.

[shadowhelm.livejournal.com]

Congrats!!!!

[ateji.livejournal.com]

I remember reading something about the slang changed around because of homosexual slurs in the US not being the same slangy terms for our Brit cousins.

I got a UK edition of a novel by accident recently and was going crazy from the single quotes used where we would use double quotes. (Or should that be quotation marks? Eh.) Let me know if it has that? I thought they stopped doing it years ago.

I've considered getting a "proper" edition myself, but...not much of an HP person. :)