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Originally Posted by hildea
When Mary Robinette Kowal wrote her Glamourist Histories series (Jane Austen with magic), she made a word list with all the words Austen used, and checked every word in her books which didn't appear in Austen's books
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An interesting idea. Though I'd have also added all the words in all the books that Jane Austin mentions in her books! Many or maybe all are available on Project Gutenberg and similar, so creating the custom dictionary for MS Word or LO Writer is easy (as is removing the normal dictionary or transferring dictionaries between Word & Writer). I've actually removed words from the standard dictionaries to ensure they are flagged and use custom per project dictionaries.
Of course modern words you'd use with magical stuff ONLY had magical connotations originally and predated Austin.
Such as Enchanting (one that casts enchantments), Glamorous (one that deludes with glamour), Fey (as in sort of psychic, the fairy creatures are the Fay).
Also some words used today didn't mean the same to Austin or her contemporaries. Sometimes it's obvious from context. So it's harder than a vocabulary.