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[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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> >>And consider my difficulty when my audiobook readers of the Jane
> >>Austen novels kept talking about "an hill", "an house", and "an
happy
> >>man".  I couldn't very well damage the cassettes without incurring
> >>the wrath of our overworked public librarians (one of whom I'm
> >>married to).
> >
> >My research into " an h---" in "Pride and Prejudice" yields,
> >serendipitiously, "an hopeless business", as well as "in an hurried"
> >and "an husband".  (And also many a "an hour" *and a few "an
> >honour".)  So that is what she writes, which of course Larry realizes
> >when he thinks of attacking the cassettes.  I assume that he would
> >not have the readers on the cassettes change Austen's words.

Austen manuscripts online here:

http://www.janeausten.ac.uk/index.html


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