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[doyle]

Hmm. Looking through some old BBF discussion and I saw this comment by Gyrus (whose LJ handle I forget, sorry):

(For example, I recently read a fic in which something bad happens and Giles tries to tell Buffy that there was no way she could have anticipated it. She replies, "But I should've done!" That just looks weird to a Yank like me.)

I'm sure I'm guilty of using that myself. Why's it wrong? Should it be 'shoulda' instead of should've?

...any other glaring errors any of you have noticed non-Americans making? Because god knows I could go on for pages in obsessive Brit-picking of both Harry Potter fics and Buffy fics set in England (the language thing I get, but some of the cultural stuff, the 'my character's British so they've never heard of ___' : we do have pizzas and action movies and strange flavours of chips/crisps in Britain and Ireland, I promise you)

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[desoto-hia873.livejournal.com]

Canada here! Yes to most of what you said, except that we use 'ensuite bath' here sometimes. Not that anyone is likely to write a Canadian Slayer fic, but I guess you never know...

[rainkatt.livejournal.com]

I think a Canadian slayer fic would be cool! After all, there are slayers all over now, right? And certainly some of the group could be traveling in Canada, looking for more slayers, there must be a hellmouth somewhere... I vote for Revelstoke (is that what it's called?), although I've been told it's quite nice now, as opposed to when I saw it right after the highway went through.

[desoto-hia873.livejournal.com]

Still waiting to see what my assignment will be in thenyxie's Tales of the Slayers Ficathon - there's a small chance someone could ask for a Canadian slayer. Revelstoke would be a lovely setting, but I've never been there (it's in British Columbia) - I'm in central Canada now, though my family hails originally from the east. Hmm... a Newfoundland Slayer. Now I bet that hasn't been done!