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emma_in_dream ([personal profile] emma_in_dream) wrote2013-03-10 07:23 pm
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The Faraway Tree

I am shocked at the editing of Enid Blyton's Faraway Tree series. While deploring the Americanism, I get why you might change Dick and Fanny into Rick and Franny.* But why change Jo to Joe? And Bessie to Beth? Why?


* Seriously, what are the odds of landing on those two names?
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