Talk:Norstrilia

(I)SBN

I'm looking at the 1975 paperback right now, and I assure you that the "SBN" is given as 345-24366-8-150 in two places (on the spine and facing the table of contents). I have no idea if there's a difference between an SBN and an ISBN, but the final 150 may refer to the price (which was $1.50). AnonMoos 21:02, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

Well, I checked Worldcat. Looks like the leading 0 was dropped. --Gwern (contribs) 22:16 22 November 2006 (GMT)

SBN numbers preceded ISBN numbers, and were converted to the newer format just by prefixing the number with "0-". So the SBN 345-24366-8, the ISBN-10 0-345-24366-8, and the ISBN-13 978-0-345-24366-9 (with a different check digit) are all synonymous. --John Cowan (talk) 22:31, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

Pronunciation of 'Norstrilia'

Please see http://www.ulmus.net/ace/csmith/cspronunciation.html The use of an -i- to render the phoneme [ai] when roughly representing other languages in English literature of the 19th and early 20th century was fairly common, and as Elms points out, it's in accordance with actual Australian pronunciations. There is still a residual prejudice against "Cockney-sounding" pronunciations (from which Australian is actually derived) among some "literary" readers, which may account for the persistent tendency to say "norstrillia" among some commentators. I can't cite any sources as this comes from personal observation at reader conventions and long term reading. Any updates welcome. 212.159.59.41 (talk) 15:07, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

You're probably right, but there would be no way to document it unless someone who knew Linebarger's original pronunciation of the name was interviewed... AnonMoos (talk) 16:00, 27 February 2019 (UTC)