I have located the single remaining archaism that I knew of:
"'You not being a girl straight out of convent school,' whatever that meant..." (p. 212)
Two of the archaisms quoted in previous posts originated in baseball.
Hebo also refers to a "'...circus.'" (L, p. 271) and I wondered whether that might also be archaic.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
If the Catholic Church existed in FLAG and Hebo was a Catholic, it's reasonable to think there were still monasteries and convents, even if we don't see any. Terms like "convent girl" referred to how some convents in out timeline run schools.
And Political Correctness has pretty much killed off CIRCUSES in our real time line. Not just changes of taste about but also nonsense about alleged cruelty to animals and the "freaks" seen in sideshows.
Sean
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