Regency Reader Questions: Rubber and Emma

Regency Reader Question I was reading Emma (Jane Austen), and I stumbled upon the word rubber… but it doesn’t seem to mean the material rubber Continue
Regency Reader Question I was reading Emma (Jane Austen), and I stumbled upon the word rubber… but it doesn’t seem to mean the material rubber Continue
Looking for just the right word to describe a punch, smack or hit that happened in the early 19th century? Here is a collection of Continue
Regency Reader Question In Georgette Heyer’s novel, “The Grand Sophy”, the heroine goes to a backstreet, crooked moneylender, Goldhanger by name, and recovers Hubert’s pledge Continue
Grose’s Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 1823 The term quiz didn’t start appearing in cant dictionaries until the 19th century. I found the usage Continue