Posted by Disgruntled Northerner on August 08, 2000 at 19:45:13 from 213.120.8.157 via proxy click-cl4-cache4.ilford.mdip.bt.net:
In Reply to: Re: Picts and Martyrs Oddities posted by Adam Quinan on August 08, 2000 at 03:38:49:
Yes, but if Ed put some of his everyday phrases in a book, I would not call them 'oddities', any more than I would call Mark Twain's or E B White's phrases 'oddities'. If the phrases suit the characters in the book, they cannot be 'oddities'. They may be strange to people from another country, but they are not oddities in the country in which the book was written and that is all that matters. I am afraid that Americans (and perhaps Canadians, Adam) do tend to think that the world ought to dance to the US tune . . .
D.N. (a.k.a. Peter Hyland)