[projectaon] Re: Misc Errata
- From: Simon Osborne <outspaced@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:03:04 +0100
David Davis wrote:
>>
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.
<<
I would imagine Joe Dever deliberately used 'gaol' *because* of its
archaic quality!
Joe used "gaol" in his original raw text (see the relevant Protext files on the
Project Aon server), which is why we opted too standardise to that spelling
instead of jail.
For once, a tricky question I can actually field! :-)
--
Simon Osborne
Project Aon
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