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To be honest you're not alone, I read a lot of different kind of things and recently I've been reading older books, or book set in the past at least. I've had
by stevekemp 5y ago
To be honest you're not alone, I read a lot of different kind of things and recently I've been reading older books, or book set in the past at least.
I've had to lookup what an "omnibus" was when reading the Professor Moriarty Series, or a "charabanc" when reading Poirot.
- Freak_NL 5y ago'Omnibus' may be more familiar, but 'charabanc' will likely be challenging to younger native speakers too. And then in this category there are the 'brougham', 'phaeton', 'trap', 'hansom', and 'dog-cart', the latter of which can of course refer to a cart pulled by a dog, but often means yet another type of horse-drawn carriage. I fully expect most readers nowadays will just go 'ah, they got into some conveyance pulled by horses' rather than having a clear image of the specific carriage referred to. Reading works by Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Wilkie Collins, etc. really expands your horsey vocabulary.