Snowflake Challenge #11: A Fannish Resource

[thrillingdetectivetales]

Today's snowflake_challenge prompt is to rec a favored fannish resource. As someone who mostly writes in the realm of period fiction, my personal favorite resources tend to be period-specific slang dictionaries, and of the many, many, many of them out there, none is so robust or delightful—in my personal opinion—as Green's Dictionary of Slang.

I have trawled it so many times, and reference the timelines of vulgar slang built from Green's dictionary so often that I probably ought to be paying Mr. Green a stipend.

It's truly an exceptional resource to help you pad your world with enough contextual slang to make your period story really feel grounded, cannot recommend highly enough.

Comments

[muccamukk]

That's so handy! Though admittedly sometimes I just throw my hands up and say "period word too goofy, will use modern word, and everyone can live with it!"

[thrillingdetectivetales]

Some of them are definitely wild enough to completely pull one out of a story, so I'm with you there, lol. It's that thing of like, Tiffany is a historical name but if you use it in period works people don't believe you.

Hi, here from Snowflake.

[pronker]

M. Green did his homework re the slang, wow. *bookmarks it*

Re: Hi, here from Snowflake.

[thrillingdetectivetales]

Hello there!

He certainly did. The language nerd in my is utterly tickled that he spent so much time on it at the same time that I'm jealous it's a project he got to do, lol.

Very, very useful! I hope it comes in handy for you. :)

[littlelostcat]

How did I not know about this? Thank you!