Damn didn’t realize there was a long history of actual scholarship on English eccentrics. I thought it was mostly just a casual and shallow stereotype.
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Trying to develop a few eccentricities in case it’s helpful in acquiring a
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Stumbled upon that book earlier this year and forgot about it...thanks for the inadvertent reminder! I'm especially excited for the chapter on "Singular Scotch Ladies."
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Yeah, it was used a lot in astronomy and mechanics. A lot of people don't believe me when I say 19th century America was way more appreciative of eccentrics, but I think this shows the trend. Google books entries look like this:
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