Words and Meaning

Fellow SF Canada member Jo Beverly has a site that highlights romance authors, as she wears several authorial hats. It's well laid out and intriguing. Last week, Jo interviewed a guest, John Dierdorf. The interview is on Word Wenches and is very amusing. I knew the meanings of words in English had changed over time but not that much. Just wait until you see that vagina was a common term for... well, go to Word Wenches and read the interview. http://wordwenches.typepad.com/word_wenches/2008/02/im-delighted-to.html

John's site is called You Can't Say That. Not only is it highly entertaining and informative, but if you're a writer creating any story in the past, it would be a helpful tool for finding out how people of the time viewed the meanings, and then figuring out how much you should put in without losing your modern reader.
http://www.io.com/~dierdorf/nono.html