Tuesday, July 22, 2014

The Evolution of Slang

Here's a passage from a 1930's British crime novel*:

"I had made no arrangements as to where I was going to stay, so I took a taxi out to Hampstead.  Some years ago I had rooms there in Fellows Road and I knew the landlady was an obliging sort--so I knocked her up and got her to take me in."

Obliging indeed!




*Bude, John The Cornish Coast Murder. London: The British Library, 2014 p. 225.( First published in 1935.)