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

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 04 Dec 2008, 23:15 · from 2008-December.txt.gz

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From: danldo at gmail.com (Dan'l Danehy-Oakes)
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 15:15:27 -0800
Subject: (urth) "Goodbye Old Buddy" -- Pirate Freedom murder mystery,
	take two
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On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 2:51 PM, Dave Tallman <davetallman at msn.com> wrote:

> 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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