The Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue was first published at the end of the eighteenth century, and given that the Coronavirus crisis is giving too much time to read books, I thought I’d pick a daily word from it until I got bored…..
With the move to a new server, I’ve got a little behind with these daily words, so there might be a little splurge of them to catch up.
Cautions
This is defined in the form of a short poem:
“The Four Cautions
1 – Beware of a woman before
2 – Beware of a horse behind
3 – Beware of a cart side-ways
4 – Beware of a priest every way”
200 years on, some people might perhaps say that this advice isn’t entirely out of place.