Originally posted on Ray L Jennings:

Having slacked off the blog last week whilst getting book 2 ready for CreateSpace, I’m back on track this week with a look at the English language and it’s use in my writings. At first glance it doesn’t appear to be too much of an issue I suppose, but believe me, it’s caused some headaches. To put the problem in perspective, let’s have a quick recap of my background. After being born in England and living there for nearly forty-five years, I moved to the US and have been living here for the last five years and despite speaking the same language, my accent and word usage still defeats some of the locals; trying to get them to understand my order at a drive-through can be tricky at best. I’m also surprised how many Americans think I’m from Australia ~scratches head~. Funny accents aside, however, I ran into three problems…

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