[projectaon] Re: Misc Errata
- From: "David Davis" <feline1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:22:53 +0100
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1a) However, the replacement referred to
(http://www.projectaon.org/en/xhtml/lw/02fotw/sect126.htm) should perhaps never
have been made anyway. 'Jail' is correct, and more standard British English
usage. Gaol is also correct, but somewhat obsolete, and less accessible to most
readers: many will assume a typo for 'goal'. 'Gaol' is used elsewhere (eg end
passage of book 3), but possibly better to change that to 'jail' for
consistency, I think, than the other way round.
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I would imagine Joe Dever deliberately used 'gaol' *because* of its archaic
quality!
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