• titanicx@lemmy.zipEnglish
    14·
    2 days ago

    I’ve seen Oliver twist, they are ready to sentence people to jail for this crime.

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      I mean, that was slightly fictional, although that’s the maybe the joke. And set a sesquicentury ago.

        • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          3·
          20 hours ago

          Yeah, I futzed with it a bit. At first I did sesquicentennial, but that’s purely an adjective which isn’t great. Sesquicentenary refers to the day, so that wouldn’t work. So, I made a nonce word which, if you know these other two, is clear.

          I’ll just ignore the insulting tone.