Section on linguistics is a delight and too long to summarize so I will just mention my favorite example: persistence of old Germanic pluralization by -en (a la "child" -> "children") in Gloucestershire to produce "wenchen"
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Wow, remember Lucy Byrd, with the iron? Her husband William is a D I C K. "With very mixed success he attempted to seduce relatives, neighbors, casual acquaintances, strangers, prostitutes, the wives of his best friends, and servants [whom he often raped]."pic.twitter.com/oAhSO17dM1
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His entire diary is just pages and pages of "I visited Mrs So-and-so, rogered her twice very well, neglected my prayers" "I met a very tall woman and rogered her three times" "rogered [Betty S-t-r-d] twice, for which God forgive me" literally his entire diary for years unreal
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"An old Tidewater folk saying in Prince George's County, Maryland, defined a virgin as a girl who could run faster than her uncle."
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"The founders of New England made rape a hanging crime. In the courts of Chesapeake it was sometimes punished less severely than petty theft." Tidewater trying real hard to make the Puritans look good
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Onto childrearing and character. Lots of Rules and Etiquette covering a basically barbaric spirit. Yet: George Washington read a translation of Seneca's dialogues, and Addison's Cato, and frequently quoted the latter.
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Lucy Parke Byrd, with the iron and the dick husband? Also had a crazy father, Col. Daniel Parke! Publicly challenged the governor of Maryland to a duel. Kidnapped a married woman from England as a concubine. When the local priest condemned him from the pulpit? DUEL.pic.twitter.com/LptCu4ZxAg
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"Yer gettin' whupped fer two, now, May Belle!"
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good ol' traditional """values"""
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