It's not that big a deal except the person wasn't any kind of expert on the 19th century but thought their gut instinct was good enough to correct me
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(To be fair, I hadn't done any research either, and did not look up how old the word was until after they corrected me, because I don't actually care But still)
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I'm surprised at how often I'm jarred by what feels like a very modern word or usage in an older text. It's made me less reflexively critical when something stands out in historical fiction. Aside: There's a book about the internet and language that came out recently. I've not1/2
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read it, but the blurbs mention the construction "because X" as having come about within the last decade due to the internet. Nope. Found it in The Way We Are, a collection of Margaret Visser essays from 1994.
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