regshoe: Close-up of a grey heron, its beak open as if laughing (Heron 2)
regshoe ([personal profile] regshoe) wrote2021-10-23 06:12 pm
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Flight of the Heron read-along: Part II chapters 1-2

Charlie is my darling, the Young Chevalier...

Flight of the Heron (under the title The Jacobite Trilogy) is doing very well in Yuletide sign-ups—3 requests and 4 offers at present :D

Next week we'll read the second half of Part II, chapters 3 and 4.
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[personal profile] cahn 2021-10-28 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
"Snitch" was my guess as to the mysterious s-word! Though maybe it's too modern a word for that?
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[personal profile] hyarrowen 2021-10-28 06:29 am (UTC)(link)
Online etymology says "informer," 1785, probably from underworld slang meaning "the nose" (1700), which apparently developed from an earlier meaning "fillip on the nose" (1670s). Snitcher in same sense is from 1827. More etymologically-inclined persons might be able to share more light on it!

So it's not far off the date, but perhaps a bit too slangy for a Prince who grew up in Rome.

Definitely getting there, though.
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