Fact of the day
17 Apr 2024 09:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cimoreneOne of the books I was reading lately was old enough to include an example of when "guy" was still an insult, specifically (in that context) meaning "fool". Love that little slice of word history.
I think it must've been the Mapp & Lucia series (1930s). But it could've been from the Irish RM books (1890s).
*I have been reading some much older than that - medieval romances; but they're all in translation from old French, so no vocabulary history is demonstrated.
I think it must've been the Mapp & Lucia series (1930s). But it could've been from the Irish RM books (1890s).
*I have been reading some much older than that - medieval romances; but they're all in translation from old French, so no vocabulary history is demonstrated.
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Date: 17 Apr 2024 06:28 pm (UTC)