Re: HP and "Pitch" - bingo!

[Barb Engvall <macbarb@CHARTER.NET>]

In HP and the Philosopher's Stone, on page 136, the term 'pitch' is
used..."By eleven o'clock the whole school seemed to be out in the
stands around the  Quidditch pitch."

I just got the British version of OOP and haven't yet had time to make
a comparison in vocabulary. I did notice that the Scholastic version
seemed to be less 'Americanized'

On Sunday, June 29, 2003, at 03:46  PM, Joyce Conklin wrote:

> In HP&SS the word "field" was used all the time. Since the title was
> changed
> to SS (American version) from PS (British version) I thought maybe the
> Scholastic editors had changed that word too.
>
> But then in HP&CS, Ch. 10, there is this:
> "'So no pressure, Harry,' said Fred, winking at him.
> "As they walked out onto the pitch, a roar of noise greeted them;. . ."
>
> So there's the use of the term in HP2
>
>
Barb Engvall
Library Media Specialist
John Campbell Elem
Selah, WA
macbarb@charter.net
http://www.selah.k12.wa.us/JC/jc.cfm

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