[spoilers] Richard Armitage

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(16-11-2010 02:52 AM)KitKat385 Wrote:  Do you mean the British version of English? Because I'm afraid a good handful of...gosh, would you call them slang? - things like bandaid vs plaster - are still confusing to me. And if the setting in this novel is older...

Yes, it's British English spoken a couple centuries ago, but the workers speech is another business. She recreates their speech pattern almost phonetically and it's hard to make sense of it on the beginning. You get use to it after awhile. The thing is, the English spoken by the working masses is different than the one used by the ruling class and she does a very good job portraying this clash. But it makes the reading harder if English is your second language.