Kirsty Stewart, “They Don’t Sound That Different to Us on ‘Downton Abbey’” (Metro, Feb. 10, 2012)
Boston Globe language columnist, Ben Zimmer, has gathered clips from the British period drama Downtown Abbey and criticized the accuracy of the show’s language on Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus.
Zimmer picked up anachronistic phrases in the show’s dialogue such as “What did you want me to do? Tell him to get knotted?” and “To me, Lady Mary is an uppity minx” and edited them into a video, which you can see below.
Read the rest here. (Related Word Routes column, Boston Globe column)