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Old 06-19-2025, 05:15 PM   #3917
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Originally Posted by issybird View Post
When a pretty good, apparently well-researched historical novel with a good review in the NYT (which is how I found it) has rookie anachronisms which even half-competent editing or common sense should have caught.

A person imprisoned in the Tower of London, describing his cell, includes “a bucket for a toilet.” A toilet? In 1600? That’s not what toilet meant. I really don’t expect, don’t even want, turn of the 17th century characters to talk entirely in the vernacular, but I expect their vocabulary to be contemporaneous with their era. No Revolutionary War airports.

So much for all that research. And NYT reviews, at that. I should know better.
Even I know it's a chamber pot and not a toilet.
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