Welcome back to my dedicated readers. For those just joining us, these articles are my choice edits from a book entitled the “Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue”, published in 1811 by Captain Francis...
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The Apollo 10 space mission was a successful one, it was basically a dry run for going to the moon, they got within 9 nautical miles of it’s surface but never touched down. So all...
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Here I am again, I’m still reading the Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose. As I said in my last post, I never thought I would read any kind of dictionary...
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Recently, North Korea have been busy puffing out their chests and threatening the wider world with destruction, no change there then. King Jon-un, son of Kim Jong-il, has even less tact than his father, which...
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So, there’s no real theme to this article I’m afraid, I basically did a Google image search for portraits of the 17th Century and these are the ones that took my eye. I’d...
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Here’s installment number three in my labour of love: the slow and steady trawl through the Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by the prolific Captain Grose. Grose was an English antiquary, draughtsman, and lexicographer and authored...
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The Octobass is a massive musical instrument that you certainly couldn’t fit in a mini. It’s shaped like a cello but it’s almost twice the size and, consequently the tone is twice as...
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Here’s a nice bit of archaeology to start your day, and sinister archaeology at that. A portal called “Pluto’s Gate” (Ploutonion in Greek, Plutonium in Latin) has been found by a group of Italian archaeologists. Based in a...
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So we’re back with part two of my depth charge in to Captain Francis Grose‘s amazing publication from 1811, The Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue. Today we tackle the C words. If you missed the...
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The Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue was written in 1811 by Captain Francis Grose. He endeavored to capture all of the common expressions of the day, used by the lower echelons of society. Vulgar in this sense...
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