Why is the American and British harry potter different?
Thursday, April 15th, 2010 at
8:58 pm
Like the american harry potter and the deathly hallows had 759 pages while the british one had 604 I wanna no if the american one had like extra stuff in it and stuff. I mean i no they change some slang words up but like 150 pages more there’s something up there maybe they had a better epologue i dunno you guys tell me thanks.
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In the text itself they are not that different. It just happens that Americans and British speak differently and spell some things differently, so Scholastic changes it into a more American adaption. If you go to wikipedia you could see the differences. Regarding the pages the American edition is a different and bigger font size. Also it is printed on larger paper. I think that makes the difference in pages. The other books were the same way.
i think it has somthing to do with how they print the book, like how big the font is, is it double spaced? things like that…
The text of the two editions is identical…only the covers, physical size of the pages, and formatting of the text is different. The latter two explain the difference in page count.
Edit: Of course, I’m wondering if the typos were repeated. I found an incorrect use of "too" (spelled "to") and my wife, an editor, found a couple of other mistakes.
Second edit: The first book published in America had some minor changes in regard to British vs. American English…i.e.; "mum" was changed to "mom." And, of course, they changed the title. But they stopped doing that in later books.
Wow that is a big difference. I have not read the British version. The USA version has 36 chapters and the epilouge is from pages 753-759. . Cant tell you anything else. Sorry
In the UK, they read with an accent.