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Edit | Post #7024 | Initial revision | — | almost 5 years ago |
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A: How do authors gain strong familiarity with archaic and extremely rare words? I've just written a story of around 7000 words that I set in 1611, in a monastery, so wanted to use the old English terms of the day, like 'ye, thou, thee, etc.' Gaining familiarity with these terms was only done by looking at lots of information about it, and repeating the phrases like 'Where art th... (more) |
— | almost 12 years ago |