Passing English of the Victorian era : a dictionary of heterodox English, slang and phrase : Ware, James Redding : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive<\/a>.<\/p>\nDid you know that one of my characters, soon to appear in “Levi Levi and the Time Machine,” develops a quirk where he only speaks in outdated slang?<\/p>\n
Well, he does.\u00a0 I gotta study up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Did you know that the Internet Archive has digitized wonderful wagon loads of interesting odds and ends?\u00a0 Check it out: Passing English of the Victorian era : a dictionary of heterodox English, slang and phrase : Ware, James Redding : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive. Did you know that one of my characters,… Continue reading Public Domain treasures<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[75,73],"class_list":["post-3215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-copyright","tag-librarians"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10258,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2022\/08\/31\/slang-at-the-internet-archive\/","url_meta":{"origin":3215,"position":0},"title":"Slang at the Internet Archive","author":"leems","date":"August 31, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"It has been a little while since Clement Skitt showed up on the bean, but you may have gleaned from Clement Skitt's word of the day that I have a bit of an affinity for vintage slang. 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