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[impressive]

... authentic curses and exclamations for various periods in history. Anyone have any good links?

TIA

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Think I'll park a few random research links here, too:

Alternative Dictionary (Spanish)

Amatory Ink's Thesaurus

Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable

Dictionary of Sexual Terms
(gives terms, definitions and year of the dictionary where it first appeared)

Drama Collection, The

Encyclopedia Mythica

Etymology Dictionary

Google

Google Images

Google Translate

Grammar Resources

Homosexuality in Eighteenth-Century England

Phrontistery, The

Wikipedia

Wordsmyth

World Wide Words

YourDictionary

 

[Colleen Thomas]

... authentic curses and exclamations for various periods in history. Anyone have any good links?

TIA

If you give me some time periods I might be able to help a little

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Check your PM's

 

[impressive]

If you give me some time periods I might be able to help a little

More exclamation of surprise than actual curse: USA, Civil War era.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

More exclamation of surprise than actual curse: USA, Civil War era.

I think Damn or goddamn will do you then. I've seen both in diaries of the times.

 

[impressive]

I think Damn or goddamn will do you then. I've seen both in diaries of the times.

That's just too goddamn easy!

 

[variable Xy]

parking this one as well. yourDictionary. it has a list of specialty dictionaries that are very useful if not anything, it's interesting.

 

[mismused]

delete

 

[cantdog]

Tarnation!

 

[carsonshepherd]

Too bad Shanglan is off galloping in some other pasture....

 

[BlackShanglan]

*laugh* First thread I opened, of course

to Carson

I recommend Geoffrey Hughes' book Swearing if you want a more scholarly (and very interesting) discussion of pejorative terms and phrases throughout history. More immediately applicable and always handy is Jonathan Green's Slang Down the Ages, not least because it goes be category: drinking, sex, body parts, words for dumb people, rich people, etc. And best of all, you can learn a word like "cockquean" which both sounds staggeringly rude and which is (at least by derivation) not nearly as offensive as you might think.

Shanglan

 

[impressive]

*laugh* First thread I opened, of course

to Carson

I recommend Geoffrey Hughes' book Swearing if you want a more scholarly (and very interesting) discussion of pejorative terms and phrases throughout history. More immediately applicable and always handy is Jonathan Green's Slang Down the Ages, not least because it goes be category: drinking, sex, body parts, words for dumb people, rich people, etc. And best of all, you can learn a word like "cockquean" which both sounds staggeringly rude and which is (at least by derivation) not nearly as offensive as you might think.

Shanglan

Muchas gracias -- and certainly useful for future reference. Now, for the instant gratification types ... what's ONLINE?

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Muchas gracias -- and certainly useful for future reference. Now, for the instant gratification types ... what's ONLINE?

A filthy PM from me laden with innuendo?

 

[carsonshepherd]

*laugh* First thread I opened, of course

to Carson


Shanglan

 

[sharingfantasies]

... authentic curses and exclamations for various periods in history. Anyone have any good links?

TIA

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Did you try these?

Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
http://www.bartleby.com/81/

slang words used in the 1920's
http://home.earthlink.net/~dlarkins/slang-pg.htm

Dictionary of Sexual Terms (gives terms, definitions and year of the dictionary where it first appeared0
http://www.sex-lexis.com/

This one is interesting but you have to search phrase by phrase
http://www.worldwidewords.org/genindex-af.htm

good luck

 

[impressive]

... authentic curses and exclamations for various periods in history. Anyone have any good links?

TIA

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Did you try these?

Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
http://www.bartleby.com/81/

slang words used in the 1920's
http://home.earthlink.net/~dlarkins/slang-pg.htm

Dictionary of Sexual Terms (gives terms, definitions and year of the dictionary where it first appeared0
http://www.sex-lexis.com/

This one is interesting but you have to search phrase by phrase
http://www.worldwidewords.org/genindex-af.htm

good luck

Thanks! Adding these to the first post, too.

 

[impressive]

Bump ... 'cause I updated the links in the 1st post.

 

[impressive]

I had it once ... and now I can't find it!

Does anyone know the source of the use of the word "come" to refer to an orgasm? I have a vague recollection of its use as "come off" initially.

 

[impressive]

I had it once ... and now I can't find it!

Does anyone know the source of the use of the word "come" to refer to an orgasm? I have a vague recollection of its use as "come off" initially.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v113/xxSerendipityxx/bump3.gif

 

[Dar~]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v113/xxSerendipityxx/bump3.gif

http://www.sex-lexis.com/A

 

[impressive]

http://www.sex-lexis.com/A

Thanks, Dar~ ... been there already.

 

[Dar~]

Thanks, Dar~ ... been there already.

Sorry, thats all I've got.

 

[impressive]

http://www.romancingtheblog.com/blog/?p=582

Interesting information. Thought I'd share:

Sanborn Maps by Deeanne Gist

How is it that I hadn’t heard of these? Am I the only one? Last week I had traveled to the locale of my WIP and asked if they had any maps of their town in 1894. The librarian moved to her computer, clicked on http://sanborn.umi.com, put in her username and password, selected the name of the city, state and year. Then … whammy! Up popped a detailed map of their town in 1894.

It showed the size, shape and construction of dwellings, commercial buildings, and factories. It gave the widths and names of streets, property boundaries, building use, and house and block numbers. It indicated the locations of water mains, fire alarm boxes and hydrants.

The librarian swiveled around in her chair and said, “You know, you can access these from home. All you need do is call your local library and ask them for their username and password.”

I could not believe it. Evidently these maps were designed to assist fire insurance agents in determining the hazards associated with a particular property. There are over 660,000 maps from up to 12,000 American cities dating from 1867 and up.

The only thing that disappointed me was that they weren’t in color. The key indicates the original maps color-coded the buildings according to frame, brick, iron, adobe, etc. I noticed some states (like Utah) have made Sanborn maps from their state available … in full color. That’s almost enough to make me want to set my next book in one of those towns.

In any case, I have a now downloaded and printed out (and pasted together) the map of “my town” and tacked it to the wall. Now, when I start writing today and my heroine jumps on her riding machine and cycles through town she will pass Brown’s Wagon Yard, Clark’s Ice House, Drane’s Dry Goods and even the Anheuser-Bush Beer Depot. Whew! What a ride.

Is this something everyone already knew about but me? And if so, what other goodies am I missing? Do tell!

 

[eric shawn listo]

More exclamation of surprise than actual curse: USA, Civil War era.

D'ja check out Red Badge of Courage?

 

[gauchecritic]

Not particularly useful for a US civil war but amusing none-the-less. Elizabethan cursing.

But without my fave Shakey expletive "whoreson zed"