Barbara Black
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M.C. Beaton:
As a reader, re-reader and re-re-reader of both mystery series -- thank you!! My question is about a word usage that I find interesting: You use the word 'up' when I would use the word 'wrong': As in 'what's up with that', when the usage I'm familiar with would be 'what's wrong with that'. So my question is where this usage comes from. Regional? Scottish? British? Barbara Black
M.C. Beaton
It’s British-speak. Also Scottish. Can be threatening. “What’s up with your face?”
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Gracie
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M.C. Beaton:
I follow your posts on Facebook and sometimes I feel like you are describing Agatha and not yourself! Do you ever take an incident from your life and plop it into one of your books? If so, can you tell us an example please? I am very much enjoying "The Blood of an Englishman" at the moment!
Christine
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M.C. Beaton:
I love your books. In a previous question, you mentioned that Agatha couldn't go to Ireland because you haven't been there in long time. Does that mean you've been to Cyprus? Where else have you been to recently, and do you think Agatha may take a doomed vacation to any of those places?
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