To me (Detroit region) 'thaht' would be Wisconsin/Minnesota, a Northern Plains accent.
]]>In one US state (Georgia?) the law was that the borders of a county could be no more than 1/2 day's ride from the county seat.
]]>But... well played, Charlie. Well played.
Record Scratch.
]]>I found a number of other errors (including the Flora/Fiona problem, mentioned by other commenters), but I gather that nothing can be fixed in the Orbit paperback edition as Orbit uses the type from the Tor edition. Too bad.
]]>(*) Though not the equally arcane rules for addressing royalty and its relatives, thank Hel.
]]>Very! It's a specialised subject area -- specific to fiction set in the UK -- and copyeditors are grossly underpaid. Also, you can't just drop a Regency Romance copyeditor into an SF/F book: the genre conventions and reader expectations are different and they'll probably get more stuff wrong than they fix.
Finally, don't even think about asking "why didn't you use your UK publisher for the edits, then?" Because: been there, did that, had to get the editing job re-done from scratch (on a previous novel). The British publishers have a smaller market, so a smaller budget, and their production editing resources are generally worse.
PS: the specialist domain knowledge works both ways -- if you read Regency romances written by American (and too damn many British) authors you'll frequently see protagonists paying for goods using banknotes. But while private banks could issue notes until 1844, notes for a face value under £1 weren't available -- and £1 in 1816 money was a lot of money: probably on the order of £250-1000 in today's terms, although direct conversion is nightmarishly difficult (a lot of items in 1816 were vastly harder to make than they are today, so more expensive, while other stuff -- beer, for example -- was dirt cheap in modern terms). The authors are so used to dollar bills that they don't realize a pound note was a whole lot different -- like paying with a $100 bill in 1816.
So, anyway, any reference to payment using banknotes in fiction set in the 18-teens should only apply to high ticket items like horses or houses: for day to day use, coins would always be used (except that the nobs would run a tab with their suppliers, who would come round the back door to collect what was owed every so often).
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