tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post7730226592972494316..comments2024-03-26T17:48:56.627+00:00Comments on 'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?': Catriona McPherson - guest blogMartin Edwardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16082485795280777670noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-44957296874837546602017-07-23T15:39:19.181+01:002017-07-23T15:39:19.181+01:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12679605532704204031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-80975434046745592802017-07-21T12:03:38.432+01:002017-07-21T12:03:38.432+01:00All subjects of huge interest to me! I will pick o...All subjects of huge interest to me! I will pick on one: I remember reading 80s and 90s crime books set in America, and starting to notice those blooming credenzas: as you say, every office had one, so then I started ticking them off when they turned up in each new book. And the only definition I could find at that time was a credence table, somewhere to put holy vessels during a religious service. <br />Earlier writers had problems with davenport - a different piece of furniture in UK and US. On my blog recently I quoted a cherishable letter on the subject from Evelyn Waugh to Erle Stanley Gardner - an unlikely coupling, one might think...Clothes In Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-65771031297082688552017-07-19T17:05:46.187+01:002017-07-19T17:05:46.187+01:00I don't mind a bit of dialect at all, but appa...I don't mind a bit of dialect at all, but apparently some people do - I was startled to read that someone got stuck with Michael Innes' "Lament for a Maker" because of the use of terms like "a snell east wind", and someone else had a problem with Dorothy L. Sayers' "Five Red Herrings" for a similar reason.<br />Jonathan Onoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-81572743492333228342017-07-18T22:33:23.292+01:002017-07-18T22:33:23.292+01:00I finally gave up reading a certain American autho...I finally gave up reading a certain American author who apparently prided herself on her knowledge of all things English but referred to the Head of Scotland Yard sitting at his desk wearing his vest and pants...Fionahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15136142030481900981noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-79810059165729630072017-07-17T17:47:37.982+01:002017-07-17T17:47:37.982+01:00I remember reading a Catherine Aird short story in...I remember reading a Catherine Aird short story in 1990 in which a villain burns down a house with paraffin. I had no idea that paraffin in the UK is what we Americans call kerosene. Here in the US paraffin is candle wax. I was so confused wondering why she went to so much trouble to melt paraffin and pour it around. I kept thinking why doesn't she just use gasoline (petrol).Tednoreply@blogger.com