http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/08/14/against-or-for/ A blog mostly about language Fri, 24 May 2013 15:22:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/08/14/against-or-for/#comment-30069 Tue, 14 Aug 2012 23:45:38 +0000 http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/?p=11588#comment-30069 Most of us don’t get annoyed when the people in “Merlin” or “Robin Hood” or “Ivanhoe” or “The Scarlet Pimpernel” say something that only surfaced in English centuries – let alone 70 years – later than their time period. (Certainly some of us do.) I wonder if it’s because “Downton Abbey” is so close to us temporally that we notice it more? (Or is that even true?)

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