"Goodbye Old Buddy" -- Pirate Freedom murder mystery, take two

Dave Tallman · 04 Dec 2008, 22:51 · from 2008-December.txt.gz

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From: davetallman at msn.com (Dave Tallman)
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 15:51:03 -0700
Subject: (urth) "Goodbye Old Buddy" -- Pirate Freedom murder mystery,
	take two
Message-ID: <1bf4dd40812041451g7b466095m6fceda310b2937be at mail.gmail.com>

Here are more "Burtisms" -- anachronistic and heavily British-slangy. He's
almost as over-the-top as King Kanoa in "An Evil Guest" (by the way, I also
think Kanoa is faking his speech patterns to disarm suspicions -- he's
clearly on the side of the Storm King).

"Gentleman" (p. 55) without meaning someone with noble birth or property:
1700's.
"You twig?" (p. 55): 1800's.
"Surefire": American, 1900's.
"Set her cap" (p. 57): 18th century.
"Chap" (p. 136) meaning "man": 1700's.
"Awfully" as an intensive without any connotation of dread or awe (p. 257):
1800's.
"The lay of the land" (p. 258): 1800's.
"Flash" (p. 258): 1800's.
"Make book" (p. 260): 1800's.
"A spot more wine" (p. 261): 1800's.
"Keep your chin up" (p. 267): American slang from the 1930's.

Ending sentences with the interrogative particle, "eh?" is probably
anachronistic, too.
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