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Dear Diary, my child had to wear PJs to school, and I'm shook

Dear Diary, my child had to wear PJs to school, and I'm shook

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Mar 22, 2024
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One of the more awkward aspects of writing books in American English when you were brought up in the U.K1. is that you totally forget how to spell words like ‘pyjamas’, which my brain (and the Substack spellcheck) tries to persuade me to write as ‘pajamas’, but which my Britishness just won’t allow other than in a novel, so I’ve gone with the cop-out ‘PJ…

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