Thought it was about time that I had an icon for posts about the WW1 novel and associated topics so I did this one - a flooded trench at Passchendaelle in 1917.

I was doing some research yesterday - listening to some of the sound archives they have at the Imperial War Museum. There was some very interesting material, but I had to laugh because ( Read more... )

I came across a copy of Hotten, which is a mid 19th century (1859) slang dictionary. I also have Grose, which  I got from Project Gutenberg, and which dates from the late 18th century. - it's the dictionary Georgette Heyer used. Neither of them are particularly long, so I decided to do a  standard English into slang list, so I can check some of my ( Read more... )