For the Love of Pete!
Posted in Books, Language, Literature, Movies, Pop Culture, tagged Atonement, colloquialisms, Double Indemnity, Film Noir, Graham Greene, Henry Wordsworth Longfellow, humor, Old Timey, phrases, slang, The Little Rascals, vernacular, Victorian Era Novels on April 19, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Part of the wonder of a living language is reviving dead words and phrases. When I recently began to toy with the idea of doing a series of novels set in the 1920’s, 1930’s, and 1940’s, I began to wonder if my knowledge of The Little Rascals would be enough to create that period dialog [...]
