Things that have bothered you for a long time.

[Deleted member 26715]

How's that relevant to 'actress' used to having a double-meaning?

Just about as irrelevant as your post to associating all actresses with prostitution

 

[Chris S]

No I didn't - I said 'actress' used to be used as a euphemism for 'prostitute'.
https://ageofsteam.wordpress.com/2009/06/08/naughty-victorian-words/

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Are you JRM as you seem just like him stuck in time at the beginning of the last century

 

[Chris S]

The fact that I have a better knowledge of English than you doesn't mean I'm stuck in 1900.

 

[Drago]

People that think we live in an ideal world, and don't understand the cold, hard, practical, physical reality of how things are. "Fair" isn't a commodity that nature, Darwimism, or imvading armies give two hoots about, so stop whittling about it.

 

[Shearwater Missile]

The word actor used for actresses now, has only been used I`d say in fairly recent times. There have always been jokes made about the actress and the bishop etc. All I will say is that I must have been very naive because I never thought that an actress was a prostitute. In that list of Victorian saucy words I see that nancy was slang for backside. I dare not wish to know why. All I will say is that Charles Dickens had a Nancy in Oliver Twist and Nancy was my mother`s name. She would have been horrified to have known of the slang. Victorian times were Victorian times and whilst some values perhaps hold good, others such as these saucy words do not.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

The fact that I have a better knowledge of English than you doesn't mean I'm stuck in 1900.

What is this 'fact' that you are relying on?

 

[Chris S]

Sorry, the fact that I have a better knowledge of some Victorian English than you doesn't mean I'm stuck in 1900.

 

[Chris S]

No, at 01:52':15" of the movie you can see him there on clifff top..

In that case the start of the film, with him walking away from the cliff, was probably the end of the story!

 

[classic33]

In that case the start of the film, with him walking away from the cliff, was probably the end of the story!

Or the end, and they played the reels backwards.

 

[youngoldbloke]

Why are size guides for overshoes always wrong?

 

[ianrauk]

What's the point of storage heaters? They're nice and warm during the day when you're at work and freezing cold in the evening when you get home.

Then they have not been set properly.

 

[Chris S]

I've got the input dial set to maxium and the output dial set to minimum.

 

[Drago]

Sorry, the fact that I have a better knowledge of some Victorian English than you doesn't mean I'm stuck in 1900.

Of course not. It's 1892.

 

[Chris S]

Phaeton is just being bitchy at the moment. I'm beginning to think that Regulator has his arm stuck up the back of his jacket.