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• davharris commented on Typo Hunt: The Trade of Queens
  P143, line 11: ' "Is it that bad?" She asked brightly...' Should be 'she asked...'...
• Charlie Stross commented on Typo Hunt: The Trade of Queens
  Alternatively, an American copy-editor who is supposed to spot that stuff was not doing what they'd been specifically asked to do ......
• Charlie Stross commented on Typo Hunt: The Trade of Queens
  It was the Scottishisms. My agent and editor had a hard time with them, so they assumed the US readers would similarly find them hard. (Wimps!)As one of the jobs of the reader of a work of SF is to figure out how the world is put together, they ought to be able to work out the meaning of strange terms as long as they're used consistently -- whether the words are abstracted from another culture, or made up on the spot (shite or smeerp, in other words)....
• Charlie Stross commented on Typo Hunt: The Trade of Queens
  There is, as it happens, a glossary in the Laundry books -- mostly because of the acronym soup of secret agencies that get mentioned. But no, I'm not gallus enow to put a gloss on Scots!...
• Charlie Stross commented on Typo Hunt: The Trade of Queens
  Contributions checked against the paperback proofs, bundled up, and thrown back at an editor. Thanks, guys! (And I owe you a round of beers, Soon!)...