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[gieseppi]

Ok I know that when you write a book that is based in the 14th century there are some things that you aren't going to do. Like write all the speech  in Olde  English. But, if you claim to have someone who is checking it for historical accuracy, lets get a glaring historical inaccuracy  fixed.  They did not grow corn in England in the 1300's

Comments

[pipistrella]

Hahaha

It's not just referring to wheat or barley as corn? It's actual maize? What are you reading?

[gieseppi]

If all they mentioned was that they were growing corn I could say that they were referring to all seed grass type of grains as corn. I could buy that, maybe, but they list out all sorts of other specific grains, wheat, rye, barley, and then throw in corn. They don't specifically refer to maize but I would think that if they aren't using old English to avoid confusion that they would use corn instead of maize for the same reason.

A world with out end - Ken Follett

Something else that trips my trigger in there is that he uses the term to "lay with" for a couple having sex. Which is a fairly correct expression I believe. Then 3 or 4 sentences later he uses the expression they were "f'ing" for the same thing.

There are a couple of other things that I can't definitively say are wrong but they don't quite sound right.

(I had to edit that a little the kitty kept running over the keyboard )