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spinbaby

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Fri Mar 10, 2023, 01:23 PM Mar 2023

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One of my pet peeves is when I’m deeply engrossed in a novel only to trip over some detail that is so wrong it jolts me right out of the story. The latest is marigolds appearing on a moor. Really? A tropical cultivar native to Mexico on a British moor? I’m fine with the fairies and magic, but can’t forgive the marigolds.

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Details matter [View all] spinbaby Mar 2023 OP
Lol SheltieLover Mar 2023 #1
Yup, I've run into a few of those and it's distracting. Ocelot II Mar 2023 #2
One of my professors in grad school talked about this phenomenon. Irish_Dem Mar 2023 #3
There's a European plant also sometimes called marigold Retrograde Mar 2023 #4
Okay, we've waited long enough... hermetic Mar 2023 #6
I know exactly what you mean. PoindexterOglethorpe Mar 2023 #5
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