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    Cant - A Gentleman's Guide: The Language of Rogues in Georgian London
    Cant - A Gentleman's Guide: The Language of Rogues in Georgian London
    Cant - A Gentleman's Guide: The Language of Rogues in Georgian London
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    Cant - A Gentleman's Guide: The Language of Rogues in Georgian London

    By Stephen Hart

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    Visiting the Underworld of Georgian London but can't tell a clapperdogeon from a running smobbler?
    Wouldn't know the upright man if he noped your costard with his filchman?
    This fascinating guide will teach you all you need to know about the vocabulary of the Rogues of Georgian London and how to function in society at the lowest level.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateOct 24, 2013
    ISBN9780992492229
    Cant - A Gentleman's Guide: The Language of Rogues in Georgian London

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    • 4/5
      Before you set your TARDIS to Regency London (roughly 1714 to 1830), take an hour or so and peruse this helpful little language guide. Although more genteel lexicons can be found explicating the language of Jane Austin or Georgette Heyer, Mr. Hart concentrates on the seamier side of town and the vocabulary a gentleman might need if he arrives without any Balsam in his pockets. Depending on our traveler's inherent skills, he will need to seek out a Flash Crib and Cut The Bene Winds so that he can avoid a Culp and offer his services to the right sort of Queer Cove. This book will be of help. It's fun to read too.I received a review copy of "Cant - A Gentleman's Guide to the Language of Rogues in Georgian London" by Stephen Hart through LibraryThing.com.
    • 5/5
      I loved the "Digressions" in this book. As a genealogist and anglophile I enjoy knowing where both the gentlemen and the ruffians might be found, primarily in Georgian London, and what their slang could have been. Little historic tidbits litter the Digressions, like Sir Hans Sloane introducing Milk Chocolate in the 18th century. Some expressions have changed drastically over the centuries. A "window peeper" use to mean a "collector of window tax". A distant "tallow chandler" ancestor might have been called a "maggot boiler". Some of the crimes seem bazaar but make sense upon reflection, such as the "black spice racket" which is robbing chimney sweeps of their soot bag. This is the kind of book you pick up to read a few pages and have a chuckle or learn something unexpected. And then pick up again.
    • 4/5
      Very interesting, and thorough. This is resource material, not a history or biography, and should be useful not only to those studying Georgian London, but also anyone who wants to sprinkle some unusual verbiage in their fiction - I can see some very useful words for the science fiction and horror fields.
    • 4/5
      If you are considering time travel to Georgian England and plan to spend time with rogues and rapscallions then this is a book worth packing to take along with you. Not only does it have lists of words used during that time period and what they correlate with today but it also provides some interesting tidbits on where to eat, gamble, attend fights of various types, punishment, jails, religion and consorting with those that are paid for their hospitality. This is a fun book and resource to keep on hand while reading Georgian period novels.

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