Word: britishism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like Lewis and Dahl, the books have a distinctly British flavor to them. Rowling gets away with plot devices that would have a hard time making it by an American publisher, according to The Coop's Ringen...
Still, Harry's magical world is popular with both British and American readers...
This book--titled Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in Britain--was funded in part with a grant from the Scottish Arts Council. Rowling has since won the British Book Awards Children's Book of the Year and the Smarties Prize...
Between the two release dates, American readers hungry to find out what was happening at Hogwarts ordered the British version over the Internet, from amazon.co.uk...
...people were going to the Internet.It shows us how people get things," says Ringen, who adds that Scholastic has coordinated future Harry Potter release dates with British publisher Bloomsbury...