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Originally Posted by Catlady
What are examples of the made-up/not-made-up Regency slang in Heyer? I have never read her books, but Regency romances have enjoyed wide popularity for many years now, and I'm familiar with a fair number of them and the slang they employ, which I assumed was genuine, as the terms are repeated from book to book.
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I don't read enough of these to know how they work, but the "terms are repeated from book to book" gave me a chuckle. I'm wondering if it's like researching stuff on the Internet and thinking you've hit a gold mine of difference sources ... only to find all the sites are quoting each other and untangling the true/original source becomes impossible, and you're left wondering if it was simply made up in the first place.